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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jacquesm on Friday August 16, 2013 @10:53AM (#6224329)
The same thing may have happened at HP, but at Google is isn't happening (yet). It may happen but to claim that 20% time is gone is simply false.
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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by mcherm on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:22PM (#6225804)
Do you have information that contradicts the description in the article? Because the article claims that the 20% time is still "official policy", but that employees are expected to still put in 100% time on their normal project (and measured on doing so) and that they also need permission to start a "20% time" project and finally that management has been instructed to be parsimonious in granting this permission.

The article claims that "20% time" at Google is no longer real; do you dispute this?

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Re:Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense,... by jacquesm on Friday August 16, 2013 @03:55PM (#6226379)
Plenty of googlers on the record in this thread that this is bs, I don't see what my anecdotes relating friends' experience would add to that.
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