The conclusions of this article may not necessarily be wrong (everything gets killed eventully), but it pretty spectactularly misses the point of 20% time. The

The conclusions of this article may not necessarily be wrong (everything gets killed eventully), but it pretty spectactularly misses the point of 20% time. The interesting part of 20% time is that it is not about what management thinks, but about how much momentum you can get on your idea yourself and with others you can attract and motivate. I don't work there, but from my understanding the idea is that mgmt can't reject an idea per se -- if you want to work on it that is your call.