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A bit click baity.

The team experimented with cancelling stand-up AND started doing a version of 20% time with a strict rule about "fun projects only".

As with any process experimentation, mixing two initiatives at the same time makes it impossible to understand the results.

And only for a week! What does that prove?

Exactly! I can enjoy a vacation somewhere for a week, but living there might be a whole different thing.

Doesn't prove anything, the whole article is useless. If they did this over at least a few weeks, then maybe.