This is such a great example of bullshit studies.
Yeah I'm gonna go on a limb and say this is a marketing campaign. It's an insult to science to call this a "study".
From the pdf:
> The fieldwork of this study was carried out at remarkable speed, from the 23rd to 24th of June 2021
Data was collected in 1 day. Is this a joke? No it's not!
> The population sampled included Software Engineers aged 18+ living in the United Kingdom. In total we surveyed 258 such people
Survation, the market research agency who did the actual work, interviewed 258 people only, I don't see any definition or criteria on what that means, years of experience, field, cultural-background, or any of the many other very important aspects that anyone would wonder about.
I really don't understand how they can do a half-assed data survey on 258 people only, and then have the gall to claim "83% of developers".
What's really sad about this is that there is indeed an increased workload I've heard people say that they've experienced, caused by the side-effects of the covid-response most governments took, from working from home for extended periods to mental health issues.
This kind of click-bait bullshit marketing campaigns is pretty harmful to the very real issue of burnout because it muddles the ground and dilutes the issue.
Yeah I'm gonna go on a limb and say this is a marketing campaign. It's an insult to science to call this a "study".
From the pdf:
> The fieldwork of this study was carried out at remarkable speed, from the 23rd to 24th of June 2021
Data was collected in 1 day. Is this a joke? No it's not!
> The population sampled included Software Engineers aged 18+ living in the United Kingdom. In total we surveyed 258 such people
Survation, the market research agency who did the actual work, interviewed 258 people only, I don't see any definition or criteria on what that means, years of experience, field, cultural-background, or any of the many other very important aspects that anyone would wonder about.
I really don't understand how they can do a half-assed data survey on 258 people only, and then have the gall to claim "83% of developers".
What's really sad about this is that there is indeed an increased workload I've heard people say that they've experienced, caused by the side-effects of the covid-response most governments took, from working from home for extended periods to mental health issues.
This kind of click-bait bullshit marketing campaigns is pretty harmful to the very real issue of burnout because it muddles the ground and dilutes the issue.