STRESS AT WORK AND ITS IMPACT ON COMPUTER PROFESSIONALS IN INDIAN SCENERIO

This century has belonged to IT era, This IT sector professionals are characterized by differing time long working hours, night shift’ lack of mobility, job insecurity and continued visual focusing the monitor leads to occupational stress. The present study is to measure occupational stress among computer professionals in various IT companies at Bangalore. Data were collected from 100 Computer professionals at Bangalore. A modified structured questionnaire was developed to asses the level of job satisfaction and occupational stress among various computer professionals who are working at IT companies more than a year. Data analysis was done by descriptive and inferential statistics. It has been found that 60% of middle level computer professionals are having more job stress and less job satisfaction as compare to higher and lower level of computer professionals. 70% of married couples are having more occupational stress and less job satisfaction than single due to long working hours and heavy workload. 85% of computer professionals go through a lot of anxiety, depression, loneliness because of their work involvement and often exhibits feeling of inadequacy, lowered self esteem and dissatisfaction and it reflects itself in the form of social, marital and sexual health problems. Males are having more occupational stress and less job satisfaction than female. There is a significant correlation between job satisfaction and occupational stress. When there is more job satisfaction then there is less occupational stress and vice versa. The implications of results are discussed with possible intervention to improve the organizational resources among IT professionals.