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"20% time"

The idea is you could ask your employees to work on the company for 80% of their time, and the other 20% of the time they could work on whatever they want.

If they are passionate about something, they could work on it as their 20% project. At Google, many of the features started as projects turned into core features. Part of the management job was to listen for those 20% project ideas and then aggregate them.

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