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Software programs that increase productivity

Productivity software is application software used for producing information. Its names arose from it increasing productivity, especially of individual office workers, from typists to knowledge workers, although its scope is now wider than that. Office suites, which brought word processing, spreadsheet, and relational database programs to the desktop in the 1980s, are the core example of productivity software. They revolutionized the office with the magnitude of the productivity increase they brought as compared with the pre-1980s office environments of typewriters, paper filing, and handwritten lists and ledgers. In the United States, as of 2015, some 78% of "middle-skill" occupations required the use of productivity software. Wikipedia →

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  2. Skim a recent paper: Emotions and Perceived Productivity of Software Developers at the WorkplaceInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Job scheduling strategies for parallel processingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Improving Software ProductivityCited 277 times
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