On 17. November 2009 by 21 clock ran a documentary on Arte Ingolf Gritschneder: Burnout - villains until you drop. Andreas Boes themed where the alarming health situation of highly qualified employees in IT companies, which he has studied in the research project DIWAIT.
you are a "system of permanent probation" exposed, sharp - and this means that they "go again and again over their borders, they walk along the brink of collapse." In particularly vulnerable areas, more than 50 percent of respondents said that they experience time and again at maximum capacity, or have already experienced a breakdown.
self-exploitation. And not entirely surprising: Burn Out has reached the IT industry. One reason for the employees there even once think about their only apparent "benefit" and "self-actualizing" working conditions and also that the physical self-exploitation is not a model for the future.
The model for the future since the beginning of industrialization, the same thing: Get organized together for the improvement of working conditions. Eccentricity and the Song of Songs on "Individualism" lead immediately to another group: that of the patients, patients unable to work. And also: The cost of this may bear particularly, but not just alone!
More:
- The Arte broadcast for peeking
- work healthy, stay healthy in the IT industry
- burnout? Results of the focus group survey burnout "Innovation Strategy and Health" on the occasion of the 2nd Future Forum innovativeness "Working - Learning - Developing Skills" on 2 and 3 April 2009 in Berlin, pdf., 16 p., 3.8 MB