Ingenious professionals

Although exhaustion can happen in different work environments, the popular press and the research literature indicate that technology professionals are particularly susceptible. A special report on burnout in Information Week (McGee 1996) proposed that virtual office technology (e. g. , home PCs and laptops with modems, faxes, beepers, and cellular phones) and a greater-than-ever demand to keep up with alteration in technology chip in to a problem of burnout among technology professionals.

Ingenious professionals in industry such as engineers, software professionals, and health care workers have insatiable demands and are not often actuated with traditional incentives such as titles and artificial promotions. Management strategies that propel others to produce their best often do not work as well with these highly skilled and specialized people (Shirom 1989). As a group, technical professionals anticipate different things from their work when compared with other employees (Shirom 1989). They detest monotony in their work and are disappointed with routine assignments.