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Re:Google engineers insist 20% time is not dead—it’s just 12... by acqq on Friday August 16, 2013 @04:11PM (#6226488)
Then the Dilbert strip is completelly accurate:

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-12-19/

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Re:Google engineers insist 20% time is not dead—it’s just 12... by mathattack on Friday August 16, 2013 @05:38PM (#6226878)
I was thinking of the same article. :-)

In their defense, most of the people that I know at Google work very hard. It's not a culture of 40 hour workweeks.

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Re:Google engineers insist 20% time is not dead—it’s just 12... by bsg75 on Friday August 16, 2013 @02:55PM (#6226026)
Its still dead then. You may have access to infrastructure to experiment on, but its on your time, not Google's.

You wind up investing personal time on company projects, with all of the usual ownership issues, thus no different than any other tech gig.

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