| Sep 2005 | Sep 20, 2005 - Tyler said the project was started as part of a Google engineer's "20 percent time project." Google encourages its engineers to spend 20% of their work time developing independent projects. Several of Google's new products have grown out of such projects, including Google News, ... www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2005-09-20-google-wifi_x.htm
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| Dec 2005 | Dec 1, 2005 - (Business 2.0) – Before he arrived at Google in 2001 to serve as adult supervision for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt was little known ... What do you do with your 20 percent time? Well, 20 percent time applies to the technical staff. It does not apply to sales or management. ... money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/12/01/8364616/index.htm
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| Apr 2006 | Apr 21, 2006 - Google puts it in writing right...engineer at the Internet giant: Google engineers all have `20 percent time' in which they're free...innovation, says Stacy Sullivan, Google's head of human resources...founders and everyone at Google.'' Sullivan says 20 ... ... www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-114050.html?refid=gnews_209
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| Oct 2007 | Oct 21, 2007 - It sounds obvious, but people work better when they're involved in something they're passionate about, and many cool technologies have their origins in 20 percent time, including Gmail, Google News and even the Google shuttle buses that bring people to work at the company's ... www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/jobs/21pre.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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| Dec 2007 | Dec 16, 2007 - Google, of course, is the iconic example. During a lengthy interview at the corporate campus, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, touched on managing amid ... I remember during our IPO, a Google executive made a statement about the Sarbanes-Oxley rules that didn't make sense to me. ... www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/technology/16ericmemo-web.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
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| May 2008 | May 12, 2008 - That's the great irony, because so often that "20 percent time" has proved to be some of the most productive time spent at this company. The company is Google, by the way -- the multibillion-dollar, multinational corporation that has changed the way the world finds information. ... abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=4839327&page=1
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| Oct 2008 | Oct 13, 2008 - eWEEK offers a visual peek at Google's famous 20 percent time projects. These include Gmail, Google News, Google Talk, Orkut, Google Sky, ... One of those is the 20 percent time project rule, which allows programmers and other Google employees to spend one of their five work days per ... www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Googles-20-Time-Projects-Pay-Dividends-for-The-Rest- of-Us/
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| Nov 2008 | Nov 24, 2008 - If a Google scaleback were in the works, what would it mean? Hypothetically speaking, one might suspect some of Google's less profitable projects could get less focus. The company has previously maintained a "20 percent time" policy for engineers, requiring them to spend one day each ... abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=6325463
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| Feb 2009 | Feb 2, 2009 - Before Buffett came on she explained that the project which became Ocean emerged from the company's much celebrated 20 percent time program. She also ticked off other 20 percent time projects that became Google success stories. The irony that struck me is that as the company is ... searchengineland.com/its-googles-ocean-we-just-swim-in-it-16412
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| Nov 2009 | Nov 5, 2009 - All Google developers can use 20 percent of their time (roughly one day a week) to work on side projects. Costache used his 20 percent time to create this experimental feature. Many of the side projects, like this multiple inbox feature and keyboard shortcuts in Google Reader, ... www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340545,00.asp
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