Study of burnout and Turnover Intention Among IT Sector Employees with Reference to work from Home during Pandemic.
20 Pages Posted: 10 May 2023
Date Written: April 26, 2023
Abstract
In these last decades especially during covid-19 pandemic, studies on the mental health of IT sector workers have become an important subject in international literature; however, there is information regarding the level of burnout among IT sector workers. Their specific job requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic, the IT sector showed resilience, and work-from-home gained popularity. Researchers showed that burnout syndrome does not have immediate manifestations but appears as a gradual reaction of emotional breakdown due to prolonged exposure to stress factors, which leads to an increase in dehumanization levels and professional dissatisfaction. The purpose of this research is to analyze the study of burnout and turnover intention among IT sector employees with reference to working from home during covid-19 pandemic and to see if burnout leads to turnover intentions. The IT sector is usually known for employee turnover and stress and burnout due to which a lot of other mental health issues occur to the employees of IT sector and also the IT sector have been confronted with having high rates of mental health issues but the present results confirm the fact that in IT sector there are burnout, as well as turnover intensions but both of them, does not have a significant correlation. The study clearly states that burnout does not affect Employee Turnover intention.
Keywords: Burnout, Turnover Intension, IT Professionals, Turnover Rate
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