Do you spend your working hours learning new stuff, reading tech blogs, books on programming etc.? What's your opinion on it? Can an employer have benefits allowing developers to spend about 1-1.5 hrs a day on learning. Will it be repaid in future (with better productivity etc.)?
I am of the mindset that it is essential for a good development environment to allow for an hour or two at most for exploration and learning, barring when it's "crunch time" on an application of course.  

An environment which doesn't do this is a red flag in my book because it tells me they don't value improvement.

EDIT

Worst of all is the place that reprimands it's developers for reading blogs/technical sites instead of "writing code".  That, to me, indicates an environment that doesn't care about it's developers beyond what they can squeeze out of them.
