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Almost a month ago I started a thread at Real World Technologies (http://www.realworldtech.com/forum?threadid=123828&curpostid=123828 ) asking about the origin of 20% time. Responses there pointed to Valve and HP but did not mention 3M. (In my post I pointed to a vaguely similar concept presented in A Canticle for Liebowitz, where monks were allowed to work on side projects after their copying quota was met.)
It was nice to read about more examples.
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...
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