The Importance Of Technostress In The Workplace

. Introduction

This reseach looks at how technostress affects employees/ organizations in the workplaces. Firstly it starts by defining what technostress is really is. Secondly it discus five different sources of technostress, the benefits versus the drawbacks of technology for the modern employee/organisation, looking at the computer and internet, and the Consequences of Technostress.

2. The definition of TechnoStress

The term technostress was first introduced in 1984 by the clinical psychologist called, Dr. Craig Brod. When it was first introduced, it was explained as the modern disease of adaptation caused by an inability to cope with the new computer technologies in ways such as struggle to accept computer technology, and finding it hard

It can also cause some employees to experience an increase in their workload and to feel pressured to work faster, which is known as technooverload. In addition, the ability of technology to connect employees with their work anywhere and at anytime has resulted in techno-invasion whereby employees feel that their personal lives are being invaded by the technology. As a result, they feel that they have to sacrifice their personal and family time and spend more time on their work, even outside the

The benefits versus the drawbacks of technology for the modern employee/ organisation

Technology helps make the work to move faster than back in the old days, due to nowadays companies use machines that can perform more work than a human being. Machines can do a work that a person can do for a week, in an hour, and this discovery of machines made lots of employees to lose their jobs. Most organizations use’s machines this days, they only hire few people to operate the machines. Which is good for the company but bad for the society due to more people who are unskilled are unemployed and obviously unable to suport their families, which might led them into turning to crime.

Technological gadgets are easy to use for those who have been taught how to use them. The company admine folks can store important data’s of the organization in the organizations computers, which also makes it easy to be accessed at any time when it is needed. The disadvantages are that the organization will have to spend more money when training the employees how to operate the computers and the machines as they require professional training. The problem with storing the important data’s in computers is that the organization might loose all the data’s if the computers can