Google is slowly starting to experiment.
7 out of 14 projects in Google’s Area 120 startup incubator — on which employees spend 100 percent of their time 20 percent projects — are cut, according to TechCrunch, sending employees looking for places on other projects to stay in work.
Google’s change of heart isn’t all that surprising, given that the 20 percent rule Area 120 is named after — which spawned projects like Gmail, AdSense, and Google News — is dead. since 2013.