First, why is everyone so damn aggresive in their rhetoric on this issue. Chill out and explain your ideas rather than lashing out.
"You're a Hollywood-trained idiot. Your blood will not boil. Your body will not explode. There will be outgassing, but not so much as you think, and that's not the same thing as *boiling*, anyway"
This is not correct. If you went into the vacuum of space you would start to blead out of your nose (vessels very close to the skin surface) first then your eardrumms would pop and you would blead out of your ears. Meanwhile your skin would be hemoraging all over your body, you would swell up like a balloon (ever been on a long airplain ride and taken off your shoes?) and you would pass out from lack of blood supply to your brain. The blood streaming out of your nose and ears would most certainly "boil" as there is no pressure to keep it in liquid form. PV=nRT. With the pressure going to zero the volume must increase, creating a very large diffuse quantity e.g. a gas. Call it outgasing or boiling, but liquid blood will leak out of your body and becomes a gas.
Considering that creativity and inovation were key words in your post, why are you so darn concerned with how this time issue is managed. Why not let the employee decide how to allocate their time, what type of projects they will work on, whether they will work in groups or as individuals, and if any deadlines will be applied. The pervasive veiw that employees will jump around like a pack of wild monkeys unless you give them structure is sadly indicitive of your view of your employees. Lighten up and some inovative and creative projects just might come out of your 20% policy.
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First, why is everyone so damn aggresive in their rhetoric on this issue. Chill out and explain your ideas rather than lashing out.
"You're a Hollywood-trained idiot. Your blood will not boil. Your body will not explode. There will be outgassing, but not so much as you think, and that's not the same thing as *boiling*, anyway"
This is not correct. If you went into the vacuum of space you would start to blead out of your nose (vessels very close to the skin surface) first then your eardrumms would pop and you would blead out of your ears. Meanwhile your skin would be hemoraging all over your body, you would swell up like a balloon (ever been on a long airplain ride and taken off your shoes?) and you would pass out from lack of blood supply to your brain. The blood streaming out of your nose and ears would most certainly "boil" as there is no pressure to keep it in liquid form. PV=nRT. With the pressure going to zero the volume must increase, creating a very large diffuse quantity e.g. a gas. Call it outgasing or boiling, but liquid blood will leak out of your body and becomes a gas.
Considering that creativity and inovation were key words in your post, why are you so darn concerned with how this time issue is managed. Why not let the employee decide how to allocate their time, what type of projects they will work on, whether they will work in groups or as individuals, and if any deadlines will be applied. The pervasive veiw that employees will jump around like a pack of wild monkeys unless you give them structure is sadly indicitive of your view of your employees. Lighten up and some inovative and creative projects just might come out of your 20% policy.