Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States

Jiayun Zhang; Yang Chen; Qingyuan Gong; Aaron Yi Ding; Yu Xiao; Xin Wang; Pan Hui

doi:10.1109/MS.2020.2988022

Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States

Jiayun Zhang, Yang Chen, Qingyuan Gong, Aaron Yi Ding, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Pan Hui

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Abstract

We identified three temporal patterns shown in commit activities among Chinese and American companies and found that Chinese businesses are more likely to follow long work hours than American ones. We also conducted a survey on the trends of, reasons for, and results of overtime work. Our study could provide references for developers to choose workplaces and for companies to make regulations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	96-106
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	38
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2020.2988022
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

China
Companies
GitHub
IT company
Moon
overtime
Rhythm
Social network services
Software
Software engineering
Time-frequency analysis
United States
working time of developers

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