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Yes it does. If the project is related to your job you can easily get your manager to let you spend 20% of your time on the side project and 80% on your current
by cobookman 10y ago
Yes it does. If the project is related to your job you can easily get your manager to let you spend 20% of your time on the side project and 80% on your current job.
However If the project has nothing to do with your current job your manager might have you work at 120%. And you are still responsible for your job and on top of that you can do the side project. However unlike other companies google will fund the project.
(Disclaimer I work at google and have been granted to take a week off work for a 20% project. And done the whole 120% time for a project)
- kobeya 10y agoSo.. 20% doesn't exist anymore. What you've describe is nothing like the original 20% time. "if the project is related to your job" -- the whole point of 20% time was that _you_ choose what you work on, not the manager that defines the boundaries of your job. "120%"? Isn't that the same as "not paid to work on this, but company owns it"? I think you've drunk the koolaid.
- cobookman 10y ago120% in yes you are doing more then 40 hours a week. But google pays for all expenses of project and you can use said project to get a promotion. A good example of this is people using Google servers to analyze all the code on GitHub to patch sec vulnerabilities. Or adding Easter eggs to Google search. There's also one team building a full fledged flight simulator from scratch and google is paying for the space, workshop, computers, and some raw supplies. I don't see what's changed from a 20% project of past.
- spankalee 10y agoYour manager is doing it wrong. A 20% project does not have to be related to your current job, and you shouldn't have to get manager approval - just let them know. They can request you bank your time for a while, but that's it.