Why FedEx days? Because every employee is given 24 hours to conceive, design, implement and ship something new. One of the ones we liked was Atlassian’s: ShipIt days, formerly known as FedEx days. Wouldn’t it be lovely to devote one day a week to working on whatever people wanted? But the reality is you can’t give up 20% of your year’s productivity on speculative ideas. You’ve probably heard of 3M’s 15% time programme, or Google’s later 20% time policy. Finding time to explore ideas to improve our customers (either directly, or indirectly by improving our efficiencies or even just our work space) is how Nutmeg started in the first place, and underpins our value of ‘customer champion’. Here at Nutmeg, learning new things and sharing knowledge is a key part of our culture. Individuals have plenty of hunches and ideas for things that would make life at your company better for your customers and employees, but not always the time to work on these. It’s tough to create space to explore and learn and test new things with so many important things to get done. Those things that aren’t obviously top-of-roadmap struggle to ever get worked on. You have more things to do than time in the day. Let me guess: if you work at a tech company, your product roadmap is pretty packed. But we all know it’s important to spend time on these things - for our customers, company innovation, and employee morale. Finding time to work on those ‘bottom of the roadmap, but really exciting’ projects can be tricky, if not nearly always impossible.
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