Occupational stress: Analyzing the factors affecting the well-being and mindfulness of information technology employees at the workplace

Abstract

Background

Stress at the workplace has a detrimental effect on the job performances of both the employees and the employers. This study discusses occupational stress of employees in Information Technology (IT) organizations and analyzes the factors which tend to affect the well-being and mindfulness of employees at the workplace.

Objective

This research with a focus on multiple stress factors including individual factors, organization factors, and environment factors has undergone an empirical investigation to examine which of the factors cause stress to employees in their workplace.

Methods

A structured questionnaire has been developed with 30 questions and the data have been collected from 260 employees of IT organizations. The collected data have been analyzed using ANOVA and SEM. From the analysis results of ANOVA, we conclude that individual factors, environment factors, and organization factors can highly impact the mindfulness and well-being of employees in an organization.

Results

This study shows that there are several consequences to applying mindfulness for managing stress in an organization.

Conclusions

We conclude that these consequences can influence businesses, activists, and scholars. This study reveals that organization factors, individual factors, and environment factors cause occupational stress and impact the well-being and mindfulness of workers.