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I've never met anyone who has this luxury, quick poll: Do you have 20% time?
by monk_e_boy 11y ago
I've never met anyone who has this luxury, quick poll:
Do you have 20% time?
- monk_e_boy 11y agoYes
- monk_e_boy 11y agoNo
- designNERD 11y agoYes
- zenogais 11y agoNo
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- sethammons 11y agoIf we are hitting targets, yes
- sethammons 11y agoIf we are hitting targets, yes
- bcassedy 11y agono
- paulddraper 11y agoIf I sandbag estimates
- melvinmt 11y agoI don't even have 0% time.
- Laaw 11y agoOur old CTO used to laugh (somewhat derisively) if anyone asked. No.
- scrabble 11y agoNot formally. However, if I was getting my job done and was productive, I don't think anyone would complain about 20% time. Although my employer is quite flexible and I have unlimited vacation as well, though that is a privilege and not a right, of course.
- carussell 11y agoDo this in a separate thread.
- goblin89 11y agoCreated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001029, probably hit the dead time on HN though.
- bwilliams 11y agoYes.
- no1youknowz 11y agoI have 100% of the time. I work for myself. What this has resulted in, is that everything I work on, either manifests into something that has a direct consequence on the bottom line. Or I have something that is in progress and I get back to it when I have some inspiration. Or it is something that I can't yet crack and goes into a folder until I pick it up again way down the line. I know if I recruited for my company. I would have this 20% philosophy.
- dcre 11y agoI have 10% time.
- a3n 11y agoI have 5% time. Two hours a week. To work on a project of the company's choosing. They're really proud of that.
- kjax 11y agoYes
- iamthepieman 11y agoNope. Barely have time to do regular development properly.
- HappyTypist 11y agoI choose what I work on and no one micromanages me. I have 100% time.
- xanderstrike 11y agoI have 10%, the Friday at the end of every two-week sprint (today in fact).
- its2complicated 11y agoNot 20%, but I got the manager to give us 2 hours every Friday. I guess that would be 5% time. I was doing C# enterprise work at the time, so I would use those 2 hours on totally different stuff; like brushing up on C++, or dicking around with Perl.
- ansgri 11y agoAre you joking? 2h is the time I need to just switch language/framework contexts to write anything morecomplicated than helloworld, never mind understand some code I've written a week ago.