Assoc.Prof. Yesim Sirakaya

St. Clements University UK Head of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations Department

Orcid ID: 0009-0004-2558-8194

DOI : https://doi.org/10.58806/ijsshmr.2025.v4i10n19

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to examine the effects of digital burnout and continuous online in today's business world, where digitalization has accelerated and remote working model becomes widespread. Especially in the post-COVID-19 pandema period, the uncertainty of the boundaries between work and private life has made a permanent norm of being continuously accessible through digital devices (Wang et al., 2021). This leads to consequences such as emotional exhaustion in employees, decrease in job satisfaction, increase in psychological stress; The inability to break with work negatively affects the psychological capital and business performance of the employees (Derks et al., 2015; Molino et al., 2020). Within the scope of the research, the concept of digital burnout was discussed within the framework of Maslach's burnout model and Technostress theory; Continuous commitment was evaluated in the context of a violation of psychological contract and work-life conflict. The study was supported by qualitative findings focusing on the experiences of remotely working individuals, and in this context, it was emphasized that organizations should develop digital workload management, time limitation and digital ethical policies. The findings show that digital burnout is not only an individual but also a multi -layered phenomenon with organizational consequences. In this respect, the study aims to both make the theoretical contribution to the literature and to provide constructive suggestions to administrators.

KEYWORDS:

Digital Burnout, Continuous Commitment, Remote Working, Technostress, Work-Life Balance, Industrial and Organization Psychology, Psychological Convention

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