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My employer encourages using around 20% of our time learning. Lower level developers can manage this pretty easily. But most of the level 3’s are kind of expected to just know stuff, plus the heavy work load. We still manage about 10% of our time to learn. But if we want to take Udemy classes, paid tutorials, or something else they’ll gladly reimburse us for the costs. They prefer their developers to “be on point”.
20% time is a day of the week. Why not just say "Wednesdays are learning and development day" or something?
My boss 'encourages' us too, but then they pack the schedule with other stuff. I think I get maybe 4% (friday afternoon, a couple weeks a month).