{"id":19982,"date":"2022-03-07T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=19982"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:31:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:31:42","slug":"tech-workers-faces-burnout-crisis-at-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/tech-workers-faces-burnout-crisis-at-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Workers Faces \u2018Burnout Crisis\u2019 At Workplace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two out of five technology workers are at high risk of burnout caused by long working hours, more demanding workloads and difficulties in reconciling work and family life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study, carried out by the mental wellbeing platform Yerbo, found that 62% of IT experts said they were &#8220;physically and emotionally drained.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">42% of IT workers facing the burnout crisis are considering quitting their jobs in the next six months. Overall, one in four tech workers plans to leave their workplace in the short term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women have a higher risk (46%) than men (38.2%). This comes down to so many factors, including pressure to perform in their respective positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The burnout crisis in the technology sector has a risky effect on companies&#8217; productivity, including a loss of motivation and commitment to work, high staff turnover, absenteeism, and corporate reputational damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The pressure of working against the clock to feed the global tech frenzy often force employees to work late hours, leaving little time for personal life, and creating work-life conflicts. When this happens day after day, allowing no space to recover mentally or physically, the ghosts of burnout &#8211; exhaustion, self-inefficacy, cynicism, and depersonalization &#8211; start closing in,&#8221; the report stated.<\/p>\n\n\n<p data-ar-index=\"7\">For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/tech-workers-face-a-burnout-crisis-unless-employers-act-now\/#:~:text=A%20study%20of%20more%20than,a%20broken%20work%2Dlife%20balance.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two out of five technology workers are at high risk of burnout caused by long working hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-work"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19982"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20012,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19982\/revisions\/20012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}