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Analysis of the impact of remote work on portuguese software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Resumo: | COVID-19, a devastating virus that has been more and more controversial, fickle and problematic worldwide. This pandemic brought multiple changes and restrictions to the way we live, rather like a historical buoyed period before and after Christ, translating, nowadays, into before and after COVID-19. This pandemic forced the worldwide population to be subjected to some lockdown periods, and Portugal was not an exception, in which the population could only leave their home for exceptional and essential situations. From those restrictions, a “new” way of work that has gained more and more popularity was born - the remote work or commonly known as work from home. Thus, it becomes pressing to investigate which are the impacts of this profound change to remote work, in multiple domains (personal, professional,...). In short, the primordial objective of this dissertation is to study the impact of the referred change to remote work, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on software professionals in Portugal. Throughout this dissertation, all the objectives and study questions, along with the relevant state of the art on the theme are exposed. The construction and propagation of the chosen method (survey), the results arising from the collection and treatment of data originated from this survey, along with their analysis, conclusions, limitations and advantages are also highlighted. In total, 176 valid answers were collected from software professionals from Portugal (mainly from Braga). After the performed statistical analysis on the targeted population and focusing on the 10 elaborated research questions, one can conclude with certainty two major findings: (i) having worked in a remote regimen before the pandemic period has a strong relation with a higher frequency use of teleconference tools (Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom,...) after this period, and (ii) participants who do not feel safe about coming back to a fully on-site regimen are more likely to prefer a fully remote regimen than the ones who feel safe and the latter group is more likely to prefer a hybrid regimen. Additionally, although not statistically significant and therefore without certainty, one can also imply that, p.e, (i) having dependants and someone’s support in their care could possibly negatively affect participants’ work; (ii) having dependants could possibly show a relation to a preference for a mainly on-site hybrid regimen, and (iii) company employee dimension could show a relation to participants’ feel of support to maintain productivity. In conclusion, this project has a strong pioneer investigation profile in Portugal, with an applicability in the software engineering area. |
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| Autores principais: | Almeida, Ana João Dias de |
| Assunto: | COVID-19 Pandemic Remote work Software engineering Survey Pandemia Teletrabalho Engenharia de software Inquérito |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | COVID-19, a devastating virus that has been more and more controversial, fickle and problematic worldwide. This pandemic brought multiple changes and restrictions to the way we live, rather like a historical buoyed period before and after Christ, translating, nowadays, into before and after COVID-19. This pandemic forced the worldwide population to be subjected to some lockdown periods, and Portugal was not an exception, in which the population could only leave their home for exceptional and essential situations. From those restrictions, a “new” way of work that has gained more and more popularity was born - the remote work or commonly known as work from home. Thus, it becomes pressing to investigate which are the impacts of this profound change to remote work, in multiple domains (personal, professional,...). In short, the primordial objective of this dissertation is to study the impact of the referred change to remote work, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on software professionals in Portugal. Throughout this dissertation, all the objectives and study questions, along with the relevant state of the art on the theme are exposed. The construction and propagation of the chosen method (survey), the results arising from the collection and treatment of data originated from this survey, along with their analysis, conclusions, limitations and advantages are also highlighted. In total, 176 valid answers were collected from software professionals from Portugal (mainly from Braga). After the performed statistical analysis on the targeted population and focusing on the 10 elaborated research questions, one can conclude with certainty two major findings: (i) having worked in a remote regimen before the pandemic period has a strong relation with a higher frequency use of teleconference tools (Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom,...) after this period, and (ii) participants who do not feel safe about coming back to a fully on-site regimen are more likely to prefer a fully remote regimen than the ones who feel safe and the latter group is more likely to prefer a hybrid regimen. Additionally, although not statistically significant and therefore without certainty, one can also imply that, p.e, (i) having dependants and someone’s support in their care could possibly negatively affect participants’ work; (ii) having dependants could possibly show a relation to a preference for a mainly on-site hybrid regimen, and (iii) company employee dimension could show a relation to participants’ feel of support to maintain productivity. In conclusion, this project has a strong pioneer investigation profile in Portugal, with an applicability in the software engineering area. |
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