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Definitely one of the elements to account for is the human element.
Big companies like Google and HP can have 20% time be good for the company in the long run because they seek to hire top-quality developers.
If instead your company consists of mostly developers who are just there for a paycheck, 20% time just means 20% less work.
Commented Aug 2, 2012 on Today is Goof Off at Work Day at Coding Horror
Today is Goof Off at Work Day
When you're hired at Google, you only have to do the job you were hired for 80% of the time. The other 20% of the time, you can work on whatever you like – provided it advances Google in some way. At least, that's the theory. Google's 20 percent time policy is well known in software engineeri...
A good book on the topic is How to Win Friends and Influence People. I learn something new every time I read it.
Commented Jul 23, 2012 on But You Did Not Persuade Me at Coding Horror
But You Did Not Persuade Me
One of my favorite movie scenes in recent memory is from The Last King of Scotland, a dramatized "biography" of the megalomaniac dictator Idi Amin, as seen through the eyes of a fictional Scottish personal physician. Idi AminI want you to tell me what to do! GarriganYou want ME to tell YOU ...
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