The mental health of workers in the digital era: How recent technical innovation and its pace affects the mental well-being of workers.

KEY FINDINGS
• New ways of working can have an undesirable influence on both workload and stress.
• Hyperconnectivity has added a new dimension to technostress by prolonging its effects
through time, with detrimental consequences to society and individuals.
• Intrusive technology characteristics, such as their accessibility outside the conventional
workplace (and work times) are dominant predictors of anxiety, isolation and sleep
deprivation.
• Older individuals seem to be influenced more by technostress, while younger individuals
are more vulnerable to overload. Males and females present some differences on their
relation to technology with the latter more susceptible to technostress.
• Continuous demands for technological adaptation can be psychologically detrimental.
• Working with technology increases the probability of burnout.
• Working with technology can negatively impact the quality of life.
• Working with technology can provoke techno-addiction.
• The above mentioned adverse effects do not depend on the technology itself but on the
way it is used.