Burnout in IT Companies

Job burnout is quite prominent in today's workforce. The modern workplace and the workers at all levels in organizations face the stress and burnouts because of the market and customer demands. Due to work Overload, role ambiguity, long-term exhaustion and high professional responsibilities the employees of the organizations are experiencing high levels of physical, emotional and intellectual exhaustion. In recent times, burnout has emerged as an important psychological disorder and researchers go as far as calling it as a civilization disorder.

The research paper is an attempt to understand the various factors like personal, work related and client-side pressures which have a direct impact on the employee burnout by administering the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory on the employees of selected IT/ ITES organizations.