Effects of Mindfulness meditation on software developers’ performance

Abstract

Many IT giants like Google, Apple, Yandex, etc., find mindfulness helpful and offer their employees the opportunity to spend time on practising mindfulness. Nevertheless, claims of performance improvement with meditation have met certain criticism. In this study, we analyse whether meditation causes short-term positive effects on software engineers performance. Our research proposes a novel metric to measure their performance during programming. Our results suggests that meditation does not lead to positive effects on their programming performance. We also measure the possible negative effects of meditation on software engineers’ performance.