CIO workloads on the rise

Jobs are being cut, budgets are shrinking and CIOs are feeling the pressure. A new survey from Robert Half Technology has found that 36 percent of chief information officers interviewed say rising workloads are the greatest source of stress for their teams. In addition, more than one in five CIOs cited the pace of new technology as the biggest stressor, followed by office politics at 18 percent. The survey was based on telephone interviews with more than 1,400 CIOs from companies across the United States with 100 or more employees.

"Too much work may sound like a relatively good problem to have in today's uncertain economic climate," said Katherine Spencer Lee, Executive Director of Robert Half Technology. "But overstressed IT workers are unlikely to perform at their best. The pressure of mounting workloads, combined with ever-evolving technologies and office politics, can quickly erode morale and adversely affect productivity," she said.
 
For more on CIO pressures:
- check out this Network.com article [1]

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