DOI: 10.17587/prin.14.217-224

Fully Remote Software Development as a New Standard in the IT Industry: European Study 2022—2023

D. S. Pashchenko, denpas@rambler.ru, Moscow, 125368, Russian Federation

Corresponding author: Denis S. Pashchenko, Moscow, 125368, Russian Federation, E-mail: denpas@rambler.ru

The pandemic and the emergence of the COVID-economy continue to have a significant impact on the organization of labor in the industries of the "new economy", of which the information technology industry is a prominent representative. By 2023, a significant number of Russian, European and global IT corporations and small software companies are working in a completely remote mode — outside the offices and without personal meetings of employees even within the same software development team. This article presents the results of a European study (Dec. 2022 — Jan. 2023), covering the experience of 48 software development and IT support teams in companies headquartered in Europe: Yandex, Sberbank, VTB to Deutsche Bank, ATOS IT, Finastra, etc. The experts determined the level of demand for new organizational and production paradigms in software development and presented their ideas and forecasts on the development of fully remote software development as a new IT industry standard in the medium term 2023—2024. The results of the study are presented in the form of solving the relevant research problems and testing the hypotheses about the level of consolidation of new paradigms in the practice of leading IT companies and their impact on the corporate culture and business processes of IT companies.

Keywords: IT industry, remote work, information technology, software development, COVID economy, software

pp. 217–224

For citation:
Pashchenko D. S. Fully Remote Software Development as a New Standard in the IT Industry: European Study 2022—2023, Programmnaya ingeneria, 2023, vol. 14, no. 5 pp. 217—224. DOI: 10.17587/prin.14.217-224 (in Russian).

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