Measuring Occupational Health and Wellness among the Employees Working in it Industry

Abstract

Today, due to technological developments, the usage of computers in the industrial sectors is unavoidable. Continuous use of computers is leading to Ocular, musculoskeletal, postural and even neurological problems among IT Professionals. Present attempted few important facets of work environment and other related factors to cause for the issues faced by the professional working in information technology industry. 

This study is the nature of descriptive research design. Both primary and secondary data used to measure relevance of this study. Sample size for this study has finalised as 300 and the researcher has adopted stratified random sampling for the collection of responses. Major findings of this study are: Most of the 270 professionals who have surveyed out of 300 consisting 90 per cent are in the age group between twenty one to thirty years. The highest average score of 4.47 has observed with the company organizes health and safety training programs. It implies that 89.4 percent of the professionals who have surveyed that describes strongly agreed the company organizes health and safety training programs according to employees ' needs.

Major suggestions of this study are: If the employees are concentrating to spent more on over time, it will cause for ill health and wellness also affected. Hence, the organisations must fix the optimum time to the employees to work as well as limit the over time.Most of the them are not at all taking break properly during the work. It may leads to heal related problems. Organisations must try to provide compulsory break time during the work as a welfare measure to reduce health related problems. Organisations must ensure to offer proper work environment to increase the efficiency as well as effectiveness of employees to perform their work.