A Study on Stress Management Among IT Professionals with Special Reference TO Chennai District

In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive world, stress has become a common challenge faced by employees across various industries, especially in the IT sector where individuals are expected to continuously adapt to changing technologies, work demands, and organizational expectations. Modern work culture often places strong emphasis on productivity, deadlines, and performance outcomes, distributed time-zone work environment while emotional well-being and mental balance may receive comparatively less attention.  It was found that young employees that too specifically in the beginning of their career experiences high level of stress. Companies may strengthen the orientations and training for the new employees and focus in stress coping strategies along with concentrating on imparting technical skills.

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