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"Apple has launched an initiative called \"Blue Sky,\" which encourages employees to devote some of their time to personal pet projects.\nNot much is known about the program except that it allows a \"small group of staffers\" to spend \"a few weeks\" on their pet engineering projects, the Wall Street Journal reports. \nApple's Blue Sky is similar to Google's \"20% Time\" policy, which lets employees spend a fifth of their time working on personal projects. Google, however, is a very different company from Apple; the latter is known for being focused and tightly organized, with upper management controlling all important projects.\nThe WSJ says the program is just one of a few new initiatives started by Apple CEO Tim Cook. Others include new employee discounts on Apple products and a charitable matching program.\nBut the current status of Blue Sky is unknown. Scott Forstall, Apple's head of iOS software, was involved in the program, but left the company in a recent executive shakeup."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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