Effect of Heavy Workload on Fertility of IT-Professionals: a Study with Respect to Indian IT-Sector
作者单位：Sinhgad Institute of Computer Sciences Pandharpur(MS) India SKN Sinhgad Business School Pandharpur (MS) India Sinhgad Institute of Management and Computer Applications Pune(MS) India
会议名称：《2012 2nd International Conference on Management and Artificial Intelligence（ICMAI 2012）》
会议日期：2012年
学科分类：0303[法学-社会学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 03[法学] 030302[法学-人口学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学]
关 键 词：IT-Professional IT-people IT-sector IT-projects infertility Information Technology
摘 要：Today, in India, IT-Professional is the most envied person because of high salaries, ability to purchase the best of the items and chances for globetrotting. But in reality their personal life lacks luster because of many problems s/he is forced to face in the professional life. Most raising and risky problem is infertility. Due to heavy burden of work, fear of performance appraisal IT-people cannot spend time to their family. Although they are with their spouse, their mind travel somewhere in their work. This culture has long term effect on their sexual life. The paper focuses on the fact that how heavy workload of IT-sector affects on fertility of couples. For the study, two populations are used, IT-Professionals and Doctors. 284 married IT-professionals and 30 doctors of Pune（India） have been selected. The views of doctors on this topic were very important. Sampling Plan used is snowball sampling. Research tries to search whether infertility among IT-Professionals is increasing, if yes what are the causes behind this problem. At the end paper concludes that couples in IT sector are facing infertility problems.