20 Mattermost | Unblock Your Workflow Become a Part of the Open Source Community Another key way to become a more appealing organization for developers is to get involved in the open source ecosystem. High-performing developers are often contributors to cut - ting-edge open source tools, so supporting the open source community and encouraging your team to contribute to open source projects is an easy way to keep talent engaged. To this end, many organizations are participating in the Open Source Friday initiative , carv - ing out dedicated time for their developers to contribute to open source projects that they use, are interested in, or simply want to support. Showing both prospects and your current employees that you care about the projects they care about can go a long way toward at - tracting and retaining talent. Manual Task Overload What’s the problem? In our survey, 34% of developers said that their teams have too many manual tasks to manage. A study by Forrester found that only one-third of IT tasks are currently automated , leaving teams overwhelmed by repeti - tive manual tasks. Unfortunately, grinding away at manual work can prevent developers from solving larger problems and prevent your organization from being innovative. Solution: Automate Strategically Automation is the clear answer to the problem of repetitive manual tasks, but there’s a reason that more developer teams haven’t already automated their pain away. Automation — especially on a large scale — is often challenging to implement and maintain. Start Small and Work Your Way Up You don’t have to automate your entire workflow to reap the benefits of automation. Chal - lenging your team to find small tasks to automate in 2022 can have a compounding effect