{"id":10873,"date":"2007-10-30T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/30\/the-20-rule\/"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T15:03:49","slug":"the-20-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/30\/the-20-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20% rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sidenote:<\/strong> it seems this is the third post for today, and the third one that is somehow related to Google. This is not intentional.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a wide known fact that Google allows (or, depending on how you look at it, forces) its employees to\u00c2\u00a0 work 20% of the time on the side projects.\u00c2\u00a0 What kind of projects?\u00c2\u00a0 What do they actually do?\u00c2\u00a0 Where this time goes?\u00c2\u00a0 Here is an idea from the hilarious article at Cracked.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Google engineers are given “20 percent time” in which they are free to pursue their own personal projects. This incentive has produced such efforts as Gmail, Google News, and 20% more employee masturbation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Sidenote: it seems this is the third post for today, and the third one that is somehow related to Google. This is not intentional. It’s a wide known fact that Google allows (or, depending on how you look at it, forces) its employees to\u00c2\u00a0 work 20% of the time on the side projects.\u00c2\u00a0 What kind … Continue reading The 20% rule<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2068,1985,1793,2418,3366,237,2416,239],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-google","tag-google-gmail","tag-human-resource","tag-humor","tag-projects","tag-quotes","tag-thoughts","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t