One of the questions most asked by potential employees in their initial engagement with TIMETOACT GROUP Austria is about 10% time for learning and sharing.
All employees are encouraged to use on average up to 10% of our time to work on non-billable activities. We don't have a set day where everyone stops work; We are each responsible for deciding when it suits us to do so. Thus far, there have been no restrictions on what learning you can pursue. You are not required to undertake to learn but when you do, we encourage folks to share what they have learned either internally through the internal wiki or by writing a post on our blog. Sharing our learnings is one aspect that we are nowhere near our goals in achieving.
We have employees in several different countries and we communicate almost exclusively in English. However, most of our employees have English as a second or even third language. Sharing your learnings is useful as a path to developing a better grasp of English.
Improvements
We are proud of what we have achieved so far but there is still room to improve.
Better Tracking of Low Take Up
We view the time we spend on learning and sharing as an investment in each employee as well as an investment in the company. We would hope that we can easily help anyone who doesn't know what to investigate or improve. We generally are not tightly constrained by project/product deadlines, so nobody should be unable to find time each week for their own learning.
Improve Sharing What We Learn
Currently, there is a lot of learning but nowhere near enough sharing. We offer support to folks writing posts with grammar and spelling plus more general guidance on the structure of posts. We need to find approaches to sharing that our employees find suitable.
And finally
Along with a commitment to encouraging continuous learning, we also work on some really cool projects. For instance, we're collaborating and spending time together working on projects for our Innovation Incubator.
