Apple Gives In to Employee Perks
November 13, 2012
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When it comes to keeping employees happy, Apple Inc. appears to be taking some inspiration from Google Inc.
Earlier this year, Apple told some employees about a new initiative called "Blue Sky" that allows a small group of staffers to spend a few weeks on a pet engineering project, according to three people told about the program.
It is a more limited version of similar initiatives for hatching new ideas that have long existed in Silicon Valley. The most well-known of those is Google's "20% time," which allows employees to spend
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