{"id":1945,"date":"2020-12-24T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1331699"},"modified":"2020-12-24T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:00:14","slug":"are-you-a-happy-developer-depends-on-where-you-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Are you a happy developer? Depends on where you live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This article<\/a> was originally published on <\/span><\/i>.cult<\/span><\/i><\/a> by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Le Gascoin, Hayley Kuhl, and Emma Tracey. .<\/span><\/i>cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the world.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The average developer rates their happiness at 61 out of a potential 100 points, compared to the average OECD citizen who rates their happiness at 65<\/u><\/a>. Hard to say if the comparison is fair, given the different data sets, but it suggests developers are not yet prioritizing their happiness.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are huge variations in how developers evaluate their happiness depending on where they are located. Globally, Northern and Western European countries rank as the countries with the happiest developers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When looking at average developer happiness per country, Nordic countries dominate the rankings: Denmark, Norway, Finland , and Sweden all take a place in the top ten. Canada ranks joint 8th with Germany and is the only non-European among the top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Given the limitations of our sample, we compared the findings to the World Happiness Report 2020<\/u><\/a> (WHR). Our results are fairly consistent with the report \u2014 seven of the top 10 countries are shared across both sets of data. Germany, Canada, and France, which rank 8th, 9th, and 10th in our results, appear 17th, 11th, and 23rd respectively on the World Happiness Report. The dominance of the Nordics in both reports is a striking similarity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The World Happiness Report <\/u><\/a>attributes the Nordic populations\u2019 happiness to \u201cthe quality of institutions, such as reliable and extensive welfare benefits, low corruption, and well-functioning democracy and state institutions.\u201d Indeed, sustained happiness is connected to a high perceived level of stability and democracy<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Relationships and personal autonomy are also important factors moderating happiness. <\/b>According to the WHR<\/u><\/a> \u201cNordic citizens experience a high sense of autonomy and freedom, as well as high levels of social trust towards each other, which play an important role in determining life satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Netherlands, the country which takes the third spot on our rankings, tops OECD countries for high life satisfaction among young people<\/u><\/a>. The education system focuses on developing autonomy and self-determination rather than obedience, resulting in happier people and better outcomes.  <\/b><\/p>\n

Stability and well-functioning institutions combined with personal freedom, safety, and autonomy seem to be the recipe that determines happiness in the countries that top both our index and the WHR.<\/p>\n

We asked developers to evaluate 20 indicators across four categories by importance and then by satisfaction to derive self-evaluated happiness. Career indicators ranked highly in importance. Three of the top five indicators of happiness are related to developers\u2019 careers \u2014 work life balance, learning opportunities, and work environment. It should be noted, however, that while the same scales were used, we did not explicitly ask developers to compare indicators across categories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The importance of work to happiness is not just true for developers. In fact, one of the most robust findings in the study of happiness is that unemployment is destructive to people\u2019s wellbeing<\/u><\/a>. This is true across age, gender and country.<\/p>\n

According to Harvard Business Review, employed people are happier and have less negative emotional experiences in their day to day lives. Further, non-monetary aspects of employment, such as social status, social relations, daily structure and goal achievement, are key drivers of well-being.<\/p>\n

Since we spend a lot of our lives working, it is inevitable that work plays a key role in shaping our levels of happiness. From our analysis, we found that for developers, happy jobs are remarkably similar to happy countries: stable leadership, autonomy , and a sense of self-determination and achievement<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Healthcare and safety also ranked very highly as indicators of happiness amongst developers. Health and happiness are self-reinforcing, happier people tend to be healthier.<\/p>\n

Across segments, developer happiness remained fairly constant, be it by age, gender or coding experience. As developers get older and gain more experience, they grow slightly less happy.<\/b> Female developers are slightly more happy than male developers, though again there is only a small difference between these two groups.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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