Researchers at Stanford University analyzed source code in closed Git repositories to create a model that measured the productivity of more than 50,000 software developers from hundreds of major IT companies.

It turns out that 14 percent of software engineers working remotely get almost no work done; The same goes for the 9 percent who work remotely and in the office at the same time, and the 6 percent who always work in the office. On average, this figure is 9.5%.

Counting code commits (a way to track changes to code that includes information about what was changed by whom) found that about 58% of employees made fewer than three commits per month. The remaining 42% make minor changes, such as editing a single line or character or pretending to work.