Correlation Between Stress and Technology? 556
marshman113 asks: "I'm an undergraduate Cognitive Science major at a famous public university and currently enrolled in a Stress and Disease course. Being somewhat of a techie myself, I've decided to write my term paper on the relationship between technology and stress. I'm sure all of you hard-working Slashdot readers experience a fair amount of stress, on a daily basis. Has the evolution of technology in the workplace (computer, internet, email, etc...), which is suppose to make your job easier, made it any less stressful? If so, how? If not, why?"
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It led to a massive explosion of "micromanagement" by the bosses back in headquarters who understood little or nothing of conditions on the ground faced by the front line. Local managers who previously had enough authority and "slack" to carve profitable operations suddenly faced unprecendented meddling by ambitious "newbies" who neither spoke the local language nor even tried to understand the local conditions.
When something went right, some schmuck at headquarters took credit for it. When it went wrong, as it almost invariably did, failures were blamed entirely on local personnel.
Not a few of the fall guys wrote long, detailed, bitter postmortems. Look 'em up.
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