Monday, June 14, 2010

Human energy Crisis sucks Information Technology

Can you work for 43 hours a day? I repeat, 43 hours a day! You must be thinking I am not talking sense. But this is the true scenario for many of us who are working in the Information Technology sector. The exponential growth of user expectations and regulatory requirements led to multitasking. The decreasing headcount and increasing workload have immensely contributed to the fatigue factor of the employees. A study reveals that the impact of multitasking has compelled the techies to work for 43 hours a day.

Information Technology is now benchmarked not against line-of-sight competitors but against “best imaginable” practitioners. This has raised the performance bar for IT. But where is the energy to respond? The future CIOs will have to re-energize the human energy level of their teams. People who are always negative suck the energy level and they may be removed from the enterprise. The organizations should be exothermic and not endothermic. If you know the cost and value that IT generates for the business that will release all kinds of positive energy. So there is a need of World Class IT accounting.

We need to pass over fatigue as a motivator. Ingenious work requires intellectual thinking and emotional engagement. We need to ensure positive work culture by offering people a sense of security so that they can really focus on their work with enthusiasm. This will really improve productivity and will bring solution to lots of business problems.

Contributed By:
Rik Das
(Globsyn Business School)

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