The Ideal Worker Revisited: A Gender Perspective on Technostress at the Office

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dc.contributor.authorGaitsch, Myriam
dc.contributor.authorSchörpf, Philip
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-29T14:31:07Z
dc.date.available2025-10-29T14:31:07Z
dc.date.issued2025-10-29
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores technostress in office work with a focus on gender dynamics. Employing an exploratory study design and focus group discussions, the research reveals that digitalization within organizations can lead to technostress through the emergence of techno-overload, techno-invasion, and techno-uncertainty. This paper highlights how employees, rather than organizations, develop individual strategies for coping with technostress, meaning that it is the former who are often burdened with managing technostress. Women, particularly mothers with dependent children, are disproportionately affected, juggling work and childcare through flexible schedules but facing invisible workloads and continuous connectivity. These challenges underscore a persistent gendered division of labor. We conclude that while digital technologies offer opportunities, an absence of consciously shaped strategies can heighten employee risks, particularly those related to gender disparities.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Weizenbaum Institute is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
dc.identifier.citationGaitsch, M., & Schörpf , P. (2025). The Ideal Worker Revisited: A Gender Perspective on Technostress at the Office. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/5.3.5
dc.identifier.doi10.34669/wi.wjds/5.3.5
dc.identifier.issn2748-5625
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/957
dc.identifier.zdb3064083-0
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWeizenbaum Institute
dc.rightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectoffice work
dc.subjecttechnostress
dc.subjectdigitalization
dc.subjectsocial shaping of technology
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectmixed-methods
dc.titleThe Ideal Worker Revisited: A Gender Perspective on Technostress at the Office
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dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume5
local.series.nameWeizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
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