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We've just started doing 10% time. In terms of scheduling, we're doing it on a Friday afternoon for the whole company. I'm hoping that this will make it easier for teams to find time for doing it because it'll be more of a "hey it's Friday afternoon, time for 10% time" rather than "I'll try and do some 10% time tomorrow afternoon if I manage to finish this feature".
It'll also make it easier to for people from different teams to work together if they want to.
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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