Those who deal with IT sense that IT Managers feel stressed. Info-Tech carried out a survey of IT Managers, which confirmed that stress is widespread. Twenty percent of respondents reported being either extremely or very stressed, an additional 45% reported that they were stressed, while 35% reported being relaxed. The interesting questions are, what contributes to the stress and what can IT Managers do to reduce it.
Organizational Challenges Are Under Control
There is much written on the significant challenges faced by IT Managers, such as demonstrating value to senior management and delivering major projects. Info-Tech's hypothesis was that stress levels are high when managers anticipate problems in meeting these major challenges. The survey, therefore, asked respondents whether they expected problems in a number of normally challenging aspects of IT work. The responses indicate that IT Managers feel that their key challenges are, in fact, under control. None of the following major IT challenges correlated to high stress levels.