Last week, Google announced that it would do away with its “20% time” policy, a passion project nurturer that ... were about soliciting new ideas for the company; others (like Microsoft ...

Even if said people could not block your 20 percent time project, they could make you pay ... It also says the idea of Googlers running with their own ideas is core to the company’s culture.

Now that Google has put some rules around “20% time,” the one day a week an employee spends on side projects, people are having a field day forecasting the end of innovation at the company ...

The end of 20% time doesn’t mean the end of innovation for Google. With more Google X projects coming to light, it’s apparent the company still has big ideas, from Glass to Project Loon ...

Google has long encouraged its employees to devote 20 percent of their time to side projects ... Our first three iterations of side projects were ideas that had been created by employees ...

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin highlighted the idea in their 2004 IPO letter: "We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what ...

The initiative, called Blue Sky, gives some employees 2 weeks out of their normal work schedule to work on special projects. Google has long offered a version of this called ‘20% time’ which ...

The idea is pretty simple: It’s that you, or a team, or a company–anyone, really–should divide your time working, so that at least 20 percent is spent exploring or working on projects that ...