Comments on: twenty percent time http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/ a blog by Jerry Leeson Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tech-Ed Collisions » followup on 20% time http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-72482 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:36:27 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-72482 [...] A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far. [...] […] A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far. […]

]]> by: Jen http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-52694 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:24:19 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-52694 I can feel some inflationary pressures coming on ;-) Somewhere along the line someone pays for that 20%. Probably the consumer? Along with the ideas that do get picked up and do work, there's probably a number that don't and aren't with the associated resources lost. Small companies, in particular, I think would struggle with a 20% rule as they often don't have the staff numbers to keep things rolling without that 20%. But even if it was a day a month, or it was done on a rotating basis, it'd be great to open up that thinking and dreaming time, rather than focusing on the implementing and the doing... I can feel some inflationary pressures coming on ;-) Somewhere along the line someone pays for that 20%. Probably the consumer? Along with the ideas that do get picked up and do work, there’s probably a number that don’t and aren’t with the associated resources lost. Small companies, in particular, I think would struggle with a 20% rule as they often don’t have the staff numbers to keep things rolling without that 20%. But even if it was a day a month, or it was done on a rotating basis, it’d be great to open up that thinking and dreaming time, rather than focusing on the implementing and the doing…

]]> by: Mike Seyfang http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-52570 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:50:15 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/03/16/twenty-percent-time/#comment-52570 My buddy Danmc just launced a startup consultancy that reserves one day a week for team. Maybe not quite the same as 1 day a week of play time as I would want it but interesting none the less. http://www.zevenseas.com/wwo/consultancy/default.aspx The most obvious example of how we do this is our team day. We all reserve one day a week for the team, which allows us to come together and discuss the projects we are working on. As consultants this means we never face tough challenges alone. By working together we are able to share experience and transfer knowledge, not only making us smarter, but it ensuring the highest quality deliverable for you, our client. My buddy Danmc just launced a startup consultancy that reserves one day a week for team. Maybe not quite the same as 1 day a week of play time as I would want it but interesting none the less.

http://www.zevenseas.com/wwo/consultancy/default.aspx

The most obvious example of how we do this is our team day. We all reserve one day a week for the team, which allows us to come together and discuss the projects we are working on. As consultants this means we never face tough challenges alone. By working together we are able to share experience and transfer knowledge, not only making us smarter, but it ensuring the highest quality deliverable for you, our client.

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