Exercise "stresses" your bones such that your body makes and retains bone mass as you age. (Nelson, 2002).
Because it is a state of being, stress, as it relates to technology, is often difficult to measure, especially when compared with the long hours and day's individuals in today's corporate environments are working. Businesses, computer/software producers, and researchers, alike, are dedicating their resources to learning more about this new stress, also known as "techno-stress" or "IT rage" (Wood, 2001). .
Such research has found that workers frustrated with the nuances of technology will often become enraged, and may resort to abusive measures like hitting/smashing keyboards, mouses and monitors (Wood, 2001). Email, often referred to as both a blessing and a curse, provides business with a faster and more cost effective alternative to sending letters and faxes to communicate with clients, but it also consumes employee time. "The average middle manager, according to one count, gets upwards of 100 emails a day" (Wood, 2001). This extraordinary demand often rules the work lives of employees. "People start the day by making the fundamental mistake of opening their email," which may ultimately cloud their plans for the rest of the day. .
Ethics in the Workplace.
Both in 1997 and in 2000, the Ethics Officer Association sponsored a study on how [stress] affects employees. The Association found, for both periods, that 48 percent of respondents said that work stress had caused them to commit an unethical act in the workplace. These acts ranged from "cutting corners on quality control to deceiving .
customers to-you guessed it-abusing expense accounts" (Boyle, 2001).
Moreover, the 2000 study found that 66 percent of respondents from organizations that were in transition reported knowledge of misconduct at work. .
When it comes to violating T&E regulations, many employees don't believe they are being unethical.