2 years ago

As someone who has worked remotely for the majority of the past decade, I’m certainly not the case study for productivity and last year’s sudden introduction to remote work, but when I saw the first headline about https://www.infoworld.com/article/3640930/github-dev-productivity-is-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels.html#tk.rss_opensourcetools, I had to wonder: did they get this right? According to the Infoworld article leading with said headline, developer productivity is returning to pre-pandemic levels, but the workplace itself is shifting, GitHub has revealed in recent research. The recent research being cited, of course, is GitHub’s yearly encapsulation of all things developer, https://octoverse.github.com/, which it released last week, with data from more than 12,000 respondents and 4 million repositories.

It’s the lead of the results: “Last year, our approach to remote work reflected a lack of familiarity.

As I mentioned previously, remote work, for me, is nothing new at all, and yet, I would say my productivity was also down last year.