REMOTE WORK FATIGUE EVALUATION IN IT AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

The consideration of work-from-home practices has changed the IT and Business Management practitioners' range of thoughts and feelings. This research focuses on remote work exhaustion and its psychological components of cognitive load, emotional burnout, and work stress, specifically regarding the two professions mentioned. It was shown in the study that IT and business practitioners differ in the expression of Fatigue due to work based on IT-dominated burnout, virtual presenteeism, and the merging of work and personal life delineation spaces. IT professionals used to complain more about the cognitive Fatigue associated with task-switching and relentless digital engagement, while business managers suffered more from emotional exhaustion due to lengthy virtual meetings and chronic inter-organizational communication. This research offers and uses a remote work fatigue comparative psychometric analysis to organizational adaptive design and remote work wellness strategies. The research brought to the fore the need for organizational responses to adapt and build protective resilience to work in a non-face-to-face work environment.