Dark Side of IT work!
We collected this points from many IT Workers…
This disadvantages mostly feeled by experienced workers not about a freshers.Among their top concerns are acidity, gut problems, back and neck pain, erratic sleep cycles, muscle stiffness, eyesight-related issues, weight gain, and intense headaches.
Let’s discuss this by these main topics sectors…
- Eye Damage (From non quality displays)
- Overweight (By the reason of no phsycial activities)
- Backpain (By the non qulaity chairs & bad postioning when see the display)
- Stress (By face exacerbated sleep patterns)
- Problem for Mentel Health (Don’t spend much time with family)
–Eye Damage–
Research published by the National Institutes of Health mentioned that the prevalence of digital eye strain among IT professionals was 82.41%, which can be attributed to prolonged computer use and uncomfortable workstations.Digital eye strain is characterized by ocular symptoms such as dry eyes, blurry and watery vision, and even headaches that result from prolonged exposure to digital devices that emit blue light.With an excessive amount of time spent staring at computer screens for coding, it’s no surprise that IT professionals often experience eye strain.
Solution:You can try using blue light glasses with BlueReflect or BlueReflect Plus lenses that prevent blue light from penetrating your eyes. Be sure to also take frequent breaks to avoid ocular discomfort that could affect work productivity.
–Over Weight–
Compared to all other employs,IT workers reported similar overall health, but lower lifestyle risk factors for smoking and obesity. Sedentary work was a substantially higher occupational exposure risk for IT workers compared to all other employed participants.
Reason:
- Most tech companies tend to be pretty progressive and don’t judging people based on physical attributes.
- Most tech jobs require sitting at a desk for long hours every day, so a disproprotiately high percentage of tech workers are overweight compared to other industries.
- Many tech workers are non-athletic types who don’t place physicial fitness on a pedestal.
Solution:Just exercise 🙂
–Stress & Problem for Mentel Health–
Over 50% of tech professionals in Asia are clocking an average of 52.5 hours every week, surpassing the overall national average of 47.7 hours per week.We observed 17.7% prevalence of work stress among IT professionals with higher prevalence among IT professionals aged more than 31 years (18.8%), female IT employees (21.4%), and employees with work experience of 4–7 years (19.4%). The possible reason could be that employees aged more than 31 years would presumably be in mid-level managerial roles with expectedly more exposure to work-related stressors.The fun fact is most of the stress full it workers are bald:) .
Reasons:
- Over 26% of tech professionals face exacerbated sleep patterns, with over 51% of them sleeping an average of 5.5 to 6 hours a day.
- Over 50% of tech professionals in Asia are clocking an average of 52.5 hours every week, surpassing the overall national average of 47.7 hours per week.
- 74% of techies sacrifice family events and celebrations due to work demands.
Solutions:
- Encourage Open Communication
- Offer Mental and Physical Health Benefits
- Bring in Meditation Classes
- Offer Paid Time Off
- Encourage Employees to Take Breaks
- Take the Team Out on Company Offsites
- Bring Some Diversions into the Office
- Consider Flexible Work Schedules
- Divide time to a good sleep (5-7 hours)
Note::::::::
But many freshers to it didn’t feel much about this.But experienced guys fear about this.And the another fear is most of the normal it workers above 40 years are kicked by a it company.Because IT Companies depending on a projects . If your project finshed you have a most chance to kicked out.
Article Written by V.Harishram.