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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 |
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1546832
Employees' attitudes and Work-Related Stress in the Digital Workplace: an empirical investigation
Provisionally accepted- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
In the digital era, the integration of advanced, hyper-connected technologies deeply reshaped work dynamics and organizational practices, especially through the transformation of the spatial and temporal dimensions of work. This study examines the complex relationship between digitalization and work-related stress, with a particular emphasis on the impact of both digital activities (i.e., number of actions and virtual meetings) and employees' attitudes (i.e., job satisfaction, personorganization fit, engagement, and work-life interface) on stress levels. Drawing on data from Microsoft 365 activity records and an online survey of employees in an Italian AI firm, this study applies Factor Analysis and Generalized Additive Models to analyze such interactions in a highly digitalized context. Findings indicate that the time-space intensification and extension of the working experience has a significant impact in terms of increasing work-related stress when exceeding certain number of actions and meetings. Conversely, job satisfaction, perceptions of work-life enrichment and person-organization fit represent subjective employees' attitudes that significantly influence and reduce work-related stress in a digitalized working environment.
Keywords: Work-related stress, digital workplace, Employees' attitudes, digitalization, Virtual meetings, Job Satisfaction, Work-life interface, person-organization fit
Received: 19 Dec 2024; Accepted: 22 Jan 2025.
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* Correspondence:
Anna Chiara Scapolan, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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