Mindset
Give great people
with great ideas the time and freedom to pursue them.
How it Works
· Employees can spend up to 10% of their time on Unstructured Time projects they’re passionate about
· If employees prefer, they can aggregate their Unstructured Time into contiguous blocks.
· Regular project planning will assume the 10% use of Unstructured Time across all employees
Motivation
Employees love Unstructured Time because it
incorporates Dan Pink’s 3 Elements of True Motivation:
1. Autonomy - the desire to direct our own lives
2. Mastery - the urge to get better and better at
something that matters
3. Purpose - the yearning to do what we do in the
service of something larger than ourselves
How it’s Used
1.
Solve important customer problems
2.
Make our work/code environment better
3.
Professional Development
Success Stories
Since Unstructured Time was launched company-wide at Intuit in 2008, it has
generated hundreds of big and small success stories including most of our
organic new offerings (including SnapTax, GoPayment,
and ViewMyPaycheck).