# Presentation for Paolo subject

**Pick 3 articles**

*num 1:*
Hamouche, Salima
COVID-19 and employees’ mental health: stressors, moderators and agenda for organizational actions

*num 2:*
Daniel Russo, Paul P. H. Hanel, Seraphina Altnickel, Niels van Berkel
The Daily Life of Software Engineers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

*num 3:*
Ralph, P., Baltes, S., Adisaputri, G., Torkar, R., Kovalenko, V., Kalinowski, M., Novielli, N., Yoo, S., Devroey, X., Tan, X., Zhou, M., Turhan, B., Hoda, R., Hata, H., Robles, G., Fard, A. M., & Alkadhi, R.
Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help. Empirical Software Engineering, 2020

## Notes on: COVID-19 and employees’ mental health: stressors, moderators and agenda for organizational actions

examines the impact of corona outbreak on employees mental health, specifically psychological distress and depression.

mental health issues seem overlooked.

The situation have a negative impact on business sustainability and individual employment.
Employees, in this case need to take care of themselves, of their families, and try to maintain their job position. What about their mental health?

not only a physical health risk but also weighs heavily on the mentral health of individuals.

Individuals mental health issues can sometimes be largely overlooked.

### Literature review
examine 2 mental health outcomes:
- psychological distress and major depression that can result from a pandemic.

The identified literature reports a negative impact of COVID-19 on individual’s mental health.
Stressors include perception of safety, threat and risk of contagion, infobesity versus the unknown, quarantine and confinement, stigma and social exclusion as well as financial loss and job insecurity.
Furthermore, three dimensions of moderating factors have been identified: organizational, institutional and individual factors.

**Organizational**
- Organizational factors are related to occupational role(what kind of job do you have?), occupational safety and health management (Employers have the responsibility to protect their employees) as well as teleworking (required to stay at home away from their workplace).
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In addition, a list of recommendations has been presented to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on the employee’s mental health, during and after the outbreak, from a human resource management perspective.

## Notes on: The Daily Life of Software Engineers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

developers still spend proportionally the same amount of time on their differnt daliy activities.
spent less time in meetings and breaks, suggesting that both were less common, possibly diue to developers adaption of working remotely.

no significant relations have been found between productivity, well-being and relevant social and psychologies variables with working activities.


## Notes on: Pandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help. Empirical Software Engineering, 2020

unique conditions for many software developers.
- stress, isolation, travel restrictions, business closures and the absence of educational, facilities are all talking a toll.

Key contributions:
- evidence that productivety and wellbeing have declined;
- evidence that productivity and wellbeing are closely related;
- a model that explains and predicts the effect of the pandemic on productivity and wellbeing;
- Some indication that different people need different kinds of support from their organization (there is no silver bullet here);
- Some indication that the pandemic may disproportionately affect women, parents and people with disabilities.

H1: Developers will have lower wellbeing while owrking from home due to COVID-19.

H2: Developers will have lower perceived productivity while working from home due to COVID-19


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