Comment Re:Scout the talent, reap the benefits. (Score 1) 248
The friendster wannabe site is exactly one of the ways they get and keep those finest minds.
All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity. Buyukkokten (an engineer at Google) had an interest in social networking and so developed his service, Google says.
That policy is going to encourage a lot of original thinking when and individual or group can work on their own projects that match with their passions/interest without the layers of managements to go through.
For Google most of these projects will probably never see the light of day, but some will and ideas from ones that fail I'm sure will be used elsewhere. And I'm sure it helps them attract and keep that top of the line talent.
All employees at Google are allowed to spend twenty percent of their time working on personal interests, a policy Google has to encourage creativity. Buyukkokten (an engineer at Google) had an interest in social networking and so developed his service, Google says.
That policy is going to encourage a lot of original thinking when and individual or group can work on their own projects that match with their passions/interest without the layers of managements to go through.
For Google most of these projects will probably never see the light of day, but some will and ideas from ones that fail I'm sure will be used elsewhere. And I'm sure it helps them attract and keep that top of the line talent.
