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20% time produces cool new features for Atlassian

April 22, 2005 3:14 PM

jira.pngGoogle requires employees spend 20% of their time on something unrelated to their real work, but that will still benefit the company. It's created some great new projects, such as Orkut and Google Suggest.

Atlassian, the company behind the awesome bug-tracking tool JIRA, adapted this strategy as well. Here's a great blog entry of what was created using 20% time.

I don't use their software, but this makes me want to.

Joe Beda, who left Microsoft's Windows team to join Google, has a great post about 20% time as well as a follow up.

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(1) Timothy Macrina
http://www.timmacrina.com
Posted April 23, 2005 12:13 PM

I'm waiting for that job where you I only have to work 20% of the time!

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