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Researchers gathered data on public GitHub activity in 2020 and compared it with activity prior to the pandemic (2017-2019). Using this data, the researchers compared the share of activity that occurred during weekends or outside of the traditional 9am to 6pm weekday work hours.
The move to remote work initially increased the average GitHub user’s hourly workweek by more than 15 percent and shifted work to nontraditional hours. The pandemic caused a large number of workers to shift from working at the office to working at home. The rise of remote work may outlast the pandemic, but it is ...
A new working paper by two economics professors from the University of Oregon uses data from the popular development website GitHub to examine the pandemic's effect on activity among GitHub users.
The average remote workers shifted two of their working hours outside of the traditional 9-to-6 weekday schedule and worked more hours than pre-pandemic.
The pandemic changed many techies’ work schedules.