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Development Incentives, What’s the Payoff?
I’m sure you’ve heard of the 20% doctrine implemented by companies like Google.
In a nutshell, they encourage their developers to spend 20% of their time working on anything they want. The purpose is to inspire innovation and help keep developers engaged at the company.
I ran across this article in which the author makes an argument against using this development incentive. He argues that “100% of work time should be used for work and side projects should be done on your own time.” I’m sure I could write pages arguing both sides of this statement, but don’t worry, I won’t. I will however, examine one specific comment he made: “… it’s better to find the right fit in a company that gives us work we’re interested in 100 percent of the time.”
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