A study to assess the level of stress among the employees working at selected information technology centers

Stress is not always negative. It may also bring out the best in individuals at times. It may induce an individual to discover innovative and smarter way of doing things. This positive dimension of stress is called as eustress. But usually, the term stress has a negative implication and this negative aspect of stress is termed as distress. For instance - When a subordinate is harassed or warned by his superior, unhappiness of unsuitable job, etc. We can say that “Stress causes some people to break, and other to break records.”The Quantitative Research approach was used in this study. Descriptive research design was selected for this study. The study population consists of all the employees working in Information Technology Centers. Among the IT employees 137(27.4%) were affected with severe stress and 363 (72.4%) were affected with very severe stress. The overall mean value is 4.05 in the test as per the factor wise analysis. There was a significant association found between the level of stress and the selected demographic variable such as “education”, “shift hours” and “working shift”.