> even just as an employee retention mechanism 20% of a salary spent on retaining your core engineering team and, possibly, obtaining huge benefits to overall company productivity is a worthy trade.
thats a fantastic way to put it. as a businessman, 20% seems super high but who knows what the right number is. it's not 0%.
i'd be careful about IP in terms of "plucking from my job's monorepo" - 20% time work is still work that they paid for. but im sure you've considered that.
lastly - my qtn was not just about retention and saving money - it was also about culture - i do worry that politics and weird team dynamics arise when you basically play on a different team 20% of the time.
> i'd be careful about IP in terms of "plucking from my job's monorepo" - 20% time work is still work that they paid for. but im sure you've considered that.
Part of something I did was setup an internal process for clearing things for external release for which all of the projects on the company's GitHub page were passed through :)
I'm fortunate to have had such a supportive manager at my previous company. They're looking for senior engineers by the way so if you're interested in the company after looking at those repos feel free to email me and I can hook you up! They really are awesome people.
thats a fantastic way to put it. as a businessman, 20% seems super high but who knows what the right number is. it's not 0%.
i'd be careful about IP in terms of "plucking from my job's monorepo" - 20% time work is still work that they paid for. but im sure you've considered that.
lastly - my qtn was not just about retention and saving money - it was also about culture - i do worry that politics and weird team dynamics arise when you basically play on a different team 20% of the time.