Title: The Daily Life of Software Engineers during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Replication Package

Type Dataset Russo, Daniel, Hanel, Paul H. P., Altnickel, Seraphina, Van Berkel, Niels (2020): The Daily Life of Software Engineers during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Replication Package. Zenodo. Dataset. https://zenodo.org/record/4104390

Authors: Russo, Daniel (Aalborg University) ; Hanel, Paul H. P. (University of Essex) ; Altnickel, Seraphina ; Van Berkel, Niels (Aalborg University) ;

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Summary

Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, software engineers' daily life was disrupted and abruptly forced into remote working from home.  This change deeply impacted typical working routines, affecting both well-being and productivity. Moreover, this pandemic will have long-lasting effects in the software industry, with several tech companies allowing their employees to work from home indefinitely if they wish to do so.  Therefore, it is crucial to analyze and understand how a typical working day looks like when working from home and how individual activities affect software developers' well-being and productivity. We performed a two-wave longitudinal study involving almost 200 globally carefully selected software professionals, inferring daily activities with perceived well-being, productivity, and other relevant psychological and social variables. Results suggest that the time software engineers spent doing specific activities from home was similar when working in the office. (e.g., coding > emails > code review > networking).  However, we also found some meaningful mean differences. The amount of time developers spent on each activity was unrelated to their well-being, perceived productivity, and other variables. We conclude that working remotely is not per se a challenge for organizations or developers.

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• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4104390

Subjects

• COVID-19, Remote Work, Software Engineering

Dates

• Publication date: 2020
• Issued: October 18, 2020

Rights

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Open Access

Format

electronic resource

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