When I worked at 3M, we had 15% time. What this boiled down to was basically every Friday afternoon, we would work on something that we wanted to work on. It's

When I worked at 3M, we had 15% time. What this boiled down to was basically every Friday afternoon, we would work on something that we wanted to work on. It's a refreshing way to end the week, and if everyone is doing it, it doesn't seem like a 'burden' or a lack of productivity. It would be hard to just implement this if managers aren't on board with the idea, but try it out one Friday a month. If it starts working well, bump it up to two, and hopefully you'll get to every Friday. Here's link about 3M's 15% time - http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663137/how-3m-gave-everyone-days-off-and-created-an-innovation-dynamo http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663137/how-3m-gave-everyone-day...