jeez, so many negative comments in this thread. I wish I knew better about your jobs, to make sure I never get one of these. I must say we have a positive environment towards innovation. We have a constant program that qualifies ideas and supports the good ones with a budget. The thing is, a rough feeling of a "brilliant" idea os not enough. You have to work on it yourself, and prove that it is worth investing on it. Then you get it a few hours to mature your idea and make a plan. Passing that, you can get more hours and maybe even a small team to work (part time) on that, And so on. In practice, we always have some one doing some kind of innovation. After working with this for years, having spent myself quite a few hundreds of hours in these projects, even with a team, I must say that the largest barrier for this is the people having the ideas. Most of the people don't seem to give a damn about this program and rather sit in their desks doing the same old job, and please don't suggest any changes, right? But gladly I can say yes, people having good ideas are heard and supported.

After I started using Epic [https://www.epicbrowser.com/] google forces for me to change my password every time try to log in. Even though i keep clicking "It was me" after changing password, it keeps happening. Guess what, many times I go for days or even weeks with my google account blocked before I finally change my password, and the effect of that (not having google account) to my life is nil. Guess people should try to stay as independent as they can from these sort of scam companies like google.