"Oops, I used my work computer for this by 'accident', better put '© Google' on 'The Sweathogs meet Dracula'."
@pganssle that sounds like you are given a fair degree of flexibility, providing your output conceptually fits the banner of some product. The contract might get weird but above all you can act autonomously which is great
@design_RG @binsrc Yeah, I have only worked there for about 6 months. We still have "20% projects" but it's not an unlimited work-on-what-you-want thing. I'm not sure if it changed or it never worked that way. Both possibilities seem plausible.
I think managers have a lot of discretion about what their staff does, so it probably varies across the organization.