>they should do the Silicon Valley long-weekend style hackathons >Make it Thursday night - Sunday afternoon, >8 days off/year instead of 52 should be much mor

>they should do the Silicon Valley long-weekend style hackathons >Make it Thursday night - Sunday afternoon, >8 days off/year instead of 52 should be much more doable for a smaller operation like NPR. Yeah, if I want to spend extra time at work I can focus on whatever the hell I'd like to, too. You seem to be missing the point of a "20% time" or "serendipity day" if you think it can be duplicated by giving extra work to people in a salary exempt position. One provides periods of autonomy without asking any more from workers, it only gives. The other asks for a huge time commitment. It shifts a big portion of benefit from employee to employer.