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  • noun informal Stress caused by an inability to cope with modern technology.

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techno- +‎ stress

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Examples

  • Technostress making most Japanese ill Have you ever gone to hospital due to technostress? graph of japanese statistics Computers and cell phones are making most of the respondents to this survey from iShare ill, with stiff shoulders and dry eye being the two most common symptoms of technostress.

    What Japanese are poor at in love 2010

  • Computers and cell phones are making most of the respondents to this survey from iShare ill, with stiff shoulders and dry eye being the two most common symptoms of technostress.

    What Japanese are poor at in love 2010

  • • Jessamyn West on the negative side of technology - technophobia, technostress, and technorealism.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: Information Tomorrow 2007

  • • Jessamyn West on the negative side of technology - technophobia, technostress, and technorealism.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: October 2007 Archives 2007

  • What do you think about the concept of technostress?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2010

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  • technostress, n.

    The Guardian, 8 February 2018:

    It is not healthy, either. “This ‘always on’ culture of emails is killing people,” says Professor Sir Cary Cooper, an organisational psychologist at Manchester Business School. “It leads to worry, anxiety, depression, and physical ill-health. There’s a whole field now called technostress, and the evidence is that unconstrained emails, where there is no guidance by employers, are damaging for people’s health.”

    August 3, 2018