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Using multiple monitors is commonly thought to improve productivity, but thisis hard to check experimentally. We use a survey, taken by 101 practitioners ofwhich 80% have coded professionally for at least 2 years, to assess subjectiveperspectives based on experience. To improve validity, we compare situations inwhich developers naturally use different setups -- the difference betweenworking at home or at the office, and how things changed when developers wereforced to work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The results indicatethat using multiple monitors is indeed perceived as beneficial and desirable.19% of the respondents reported adding a monitor to their home setup inresponse to the Covid-19 situation. At the same time, the single mostinfluential factor cited as affecting productivity was not the physical setupbut interactions with co-workers -- both reduced productivity due to lack ofconnections available at work, and improved productivity due to reducedinterruptions from co-workers. A central implication of our work is thatempirical research on software development should be conducted in settingssimilar to those actually used by practitioners, and in particular usingworkstations configured with multiple monitors.

Use and Perceptions of Multi-Monitor Workstations: A Natural Experiment