Young employees find dealing with IT "most stressful" work issue
21 Feb 2013
With a growing number of personal devices being used at the workplace, dealing with IT has emerged as the most stressful issue at work for young employees in India according to research commissioned by global virtualisation and cloud infrastructure provider VMware.
A majority (75 per cent) of the respondents to the survey in India were 'millennials', or 'Generation Y', workers who were born between 1980 and 1995.
The second annual New Way of Work Life Study 2013, conducted across 12 countries in Asia-Pacific, found that while a large number of employees (85 per cent) in India are provided with a portable device by their employers, a growing number (81 per cent, compared to 77 per cent last year) are bringing their own device to work to help them complete their tasks.
The study revealed that 40 per cent Indians find dealing with IT issues far more stressful than dealing with bureaucracy (35 per cent) or their workload (31 per cent).
Generation Y employees are combatting stress at the workplace by increasingly bringing their own device (81 per cent) and using their preferred IT tools (69 per cent).
In fact, 78 per cent claim to be happier in their role when they are allowed to use a device of their choice. Last year, 72 per cent claimed to be more productive and 70 per cent happier when allowed to use a device of their choice – showing improvements in productivity and happiness with the blurring of work and personal life enabled by technology.
