Management: What Motivates Your Techies?

"Google has the right idea: Let your employees work on whatever they want for 20 percent of their work week. Many of Google’s innovative services came from an employee’s 20 percent time. That’s only one out of five days. If you have a bored employee, you probably only get a full one to two days’ worth of actual work out of him in a given week anyway."

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