How to save yourself – or your employees – from overwhelming ‘technostress’ at work, according to a CU researcher

Endless work emails. Slack messages from coworkers. Virtual meetings on Zoom.  If these things boost your anxiety, you're experiencing something called technostress. Technostress can also include anxiety about keeping up with new technologies – or being replaced by them.   It makes employees miserable. And easing technostress at work is an ongoing struggle for employers, especially since technology seems to blur the boundaries between work time and personal time. Jason Thatcher is a University of Colorado researcher who studies how people do their jobs and use technology in the workplace. He teaches at CU’s Leeds School of Business. In a recent paper, he argues that the key to reducing tech-related stress is to understand that individual employees will react to different technologies in different ways.  Jason spoke with ITN’s Brad Turner about how you, and your boss, can lower the technostress you encounter at work.  Sign up for the In The NoCo newsletter: Visit KUNC.orgQuestions? Feedback? Story ideas? Email us: [email protected] what you're hearing? Help more people discover In The NoCo by rating the show on your favorite podcast app. Thanks!Host and Producer: Erin O'TooleProducer: Ariel LaveryExecutive Producer: Brad TurnerTheme music by Robbie ReverbAdditional music by Blue Dot SessionsIn The NoCo is a production of KUNC News and Community Radio for Northern Colorado.