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Stackoverflow 2022 survey1/18/2024 ![]() ![]() ConclusionĪre developers happy at work? About 70% of the professional developers that we surveyed say they are. As if we needed further evidence that hybrid work was here to stay. ![]() Still, 45% developers say the ideal work environment is in their own home, while 27% say it’s in an office building. Not every work environment works for everyone in the same ways. All in all, developers value flexibility. Just give them a chair and you’ve rounded out the top five elements of an ideal workspace. When asked what makes for the ideal work environment, developers put windows, quiet surroundings, bright natural light, and plants at the top of the list. With the home now becoming an office, new priorities emerge. But the pandemic has produced a massive shift to hybrid and fully remote work. In the past, we might assume the majority of developers worked from an office at least part of the time. We all want to feel like we’re making a difference, and hitting roadblocks at work just because you’re not sure where to find answers is incredibly frustrating.” A greenhouse might be the ideal developer habitat. Constantly stopping and starting makes me feel unproductive. “When I code, I don’t like disruptions in my flow state. It shouldn’t be as surprising as it is,” said Matt Kiernander, technical advocate here at Stack Overflow. “Feeling productive at work plays a much more critical role in team happiness than we probably realize. Similar to our recent research around what developers prioritize when they look for new job opportunities, flexibility and productivity consistently reign supreme. Feeling unproductive at work was number one (45%) among the factors that cause unhappiness-even above salary, which slipped to fourth (37%). Similarly, the inverse of these reasons were the top five reasons developers are unhappy at work: a low salary, no work-life balance, feeling unproductive at work, and the absence of growth opportunities. ![]() This data mirrors what other companies, like Skillsoft, have found in recent surveys. When we dug deeper, we found that salary (60%), work-life balance (58%), flexibility (52%), productivity (52%), and growth opportunities (49%) were the top five reasons for developers to be happy at work. are the five happiest countries for developers. India, the U.S., Germany, Spain, and the U.K. Roughly 70% of working developers are happy at work right now, with over 90% saying it is important for them to be happy at work. What regions and countries have the happiest developers in the world? Are developers actually happy at work? And what makes the difference between happiness and unhappiness: salary, flexibility, intellectual challenge, or all of the above? We surveyed over 350 developers across the globe to find out. What to make of these two contrasting data points? Maybe the answer lies not with the opportunities at other companies, but with developers’ satisfaction with their own. That said, we learned at the end of 2021 that nearly 80% of developers aren’t actively looking for a new job. The notion that burnout is the principal driver of the resignation crisis in tech makes sense at first. Strapped teams compounded with the pressures of rapid growth typically translate to high-stress environments for developers. What’s driving this trend? It’s certainly not a lack of demand: the last two years have seen unprecedented growth across nearly every technology-driven industry. Tech, in particular, has among the highest resignation rates in any industry, with a 4.5% increase in departures in 2021 compared to 2020. One of the most striking impacts of the pandemic has been a massive reshuffling of the workforce known as the Great Resignation. ![]()
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