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

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University of Colorado researcher Jason Thatcher studies how people perform their jobs and use workplace technology. He recently released a study showing that people's individual and unique reactions to technology can help reduce stress in the workplace.

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. Eeasing technostress at work is an ongoing struggle for employers, especially since technology seems to blur the boundaries between work and personal time.

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 , he argued 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.

KUNC's In The NoCo is a daily slice of stories, news, people and issues. It's a window to the communities along the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The show brings context and insight to the stories of the day, often elevating unheard voices in the process. And because life in Northern Colorado is a balance of work and play, we celebrate the lighter side of things here, too.
Ariel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. She co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University’s NPR member station, and won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family’s financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
Brad Turner is an executive producer in KUNC's newsroom. He manages the podcast team that makes In The NoCo, which also airs weekdays in Morning Edition and All Things Considered. His work as a podcaster and journalist has appeared on NPR's Weekend Edition, NPR Music, the PBS °µºÚ±¬ÁÏhour, Colorado Public Radio, MTV Online, the Denver Post, Boulder's Daily Camera, and the Longmont Times-Call.