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

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 coul...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 96 - 106
Main Authors Zhang, Jiayun, Chen, Yang, Gong, Qingyuan, Wang, Xin, Ding, Aaron Yi, Xiao, Yu, Hui, Pan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.03.2021
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
China
GitHub
Information technology
IT company
overtime
Pattern recognition
Social network services
Software engineering
Time-frequency analysis
United States
working time of developers
Workplaces
United States > US
China
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2020.2988022