How many hours do developers actually stare at a monitor every day?
Source: Dev.to
If you’re a developer, a lot of the time is spent bouncing between code editors, terminals, logs, PRs, documentation, meetings, and chat tools. Even when you’re not actively coding, your eyes are still on a screen.
When we’ve been talking with developers in different roles, one thing keeps coming up, often without people really noticing it at first:
A lot of developers spend well over 8 hours a day looking at a monitor.
What really stuck with us wasn’t the number itself, but how the fatigue shows up. More than a few people told us that by the end of the day, it’s not that they can’t think anymore; their eyes just give out first.
After hearing this so many times, we wanted to pause and ask:
How many hours a day do you feel like you’re actually looking at a monitor?
- Less than 6 hours
- 6–8 hours
- 8–10 hours
- More than 10 hours
When during the day do you usually start to feel it in your eyes?
(Feel free to share your experience in the comments.)