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A Self-Awareness Approach to Preventing IT Burnout

by Eugene Kaluzniacky

With rapid organizational and technological change, increased expectations from computers, and often declining budgets, today's IT worker is often required to be creative yet precise, within strict time limits. Factors such as rapid change, unrealistic expectations of users, and skill obsolescence are being reported as causing significant, ongoing stress among IT professionals. IT burnout is becoming a reality. In a short Internet poll of 250 IT workers, 48% responded being "close to burnout," answering at least five on a seven-point scale.

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A Self-Awareness Approach to Preventing IT Burnout 6 August 2003

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