12%-time

12% Time

12% Time is an innovation program wherein employees dedicate approximately 12% of their work week (typically four hours out of a 32-hour workweek) to pursue projects of personal interest that could potentially benefit the company. This concept is adapted from Google's 20% time concept.

Goals

12% Time creates structured slack in employees' schedules. This has two primary goals: 1. force us to create slack in project schedules, that can be consumed when time runs over. 2. allow for more experimentation and creativity that might not naturally come up in projects.

, allowing time for:

• Exploration of new ideas
• Innovation outside of daily responsibilities
• Skill development
• Cross-departmental collaboration
• Technical debt reduction
• Potential development of new products or features

Doing 12% time at Delft Solutions

choose your own topic do this at the end of the week, once work is done preferably not in the weekend demo your work or share learnings Friday