Abstract
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. However, we also found some significant 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.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | Proceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering : Software Engineering in Practice (ICSE-SEIP) |
Antal sider | 10 |
Forlag | IEEE |
Publikationsdato | maj 2021 |
Sider | 364-373 |
Artikelnummer | 9401998 |
ISBN (Trykt) | 978-1-6654-3869-8 |
ISBN (Elektronisk) | 9780738146690 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - maj 2021 |
Begivenhed | 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2021 - Virtual, Online, Spanien Varighed: 25 maj 2021 → 28 maj 2021 |
Konference
Konference | 43rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, ICSE-SEIP 2021 |
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Land/Område | Spanien |
By | Virtual, Online |
Periode | 25/05/2021 → 28/05/2021 |
Sponsor | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE), Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) |
Navn | Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering |
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ISSN | 0270-5257 |
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