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  • Google’s 20% rule does not exist anymore: the end of a legend?

    by Steven Van Belleghem on September 16, 2013in the categories OpinionNo Comments

    Google employees are only required to spend 80% of their time on their assigned projects; they are free to spend the remaining 20 however they like. This policy is one of the prime examples of Google’s famous corporate culture. Or at least it used to be: the rule has been abandoned over the last few months. The decision has been met with disbelief. Surely Google’s innovative corporate culture can’t simply cease to exist? After all, without the 20% rule, products like Gmail and Google Maps would never have seen the light of day.

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