By allowing engineers to devote 20 percent of their paid work time to the pursuit of personal projects, Google continues to germinate additional seeds that keep its harvest growing.

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So they devote more time to their constituency work.

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Full-time employees have a vested interest in your company, both in terms of the time they devote and the quality of their work because they share in the success and failure of the company.

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It's the only way to give millions of capable women the ability to recalibrate the time that they devote to work at different stages of their lives.

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We should celebrate the work of those who devote their entire lives to the cultivation of our children, and we should continue working to draw the best and brightest to the field of education.

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