40 or so years later, the book Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister remains the best quantitative study on environmental impacts on developer productivity.
The world has changed significantly since it was written, so you have to translate their measurements to modern contexts, but it's easier to translate real data on human behavior than to guess based on guesses.
the OP is a journalistic summary of
Breaking the Flow: A Study of Interruptions During Software Engineering Activities
Yimeng Ma, Yu Huang, Kevin Leach
(2024) icsi Portugal
it's not properly quoted, but it's directly linked, prominently.
yes, I agree, peopleware is on the must have reading list, but this article certainly is not guesses on guesses
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