Glass is the sort of thing that could never have come from Google's 20% program—which is just as well.
Google’s “20% time,”
which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects,
effectively no longer exists. That’s according to former Google
employees, one who spoke to Quartz on the condition of anonymity and
others who have said it publicly.
What happened to the company’s most famous and most imitated perk? For many employees, it has become too difficult to take time off from their day jobs to work on independent projects.
This
is a strategic shift for Google that has implications for how the
company stays competitive, yet there has never been an official
acknowledgement by Google management that the policy is moribund. Google
didn’t respond to a request for comment from Quartz.
For the rest of the story: http://qz.com/115831/googles-20-time-which-brought-you-gmail-and-adsense-is-now-as-good-as-dead/
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