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Производственные факторы стресса в работе российских и французских IT-специалистов
The paper discusses stress factors coming from the work content and labor conditions
among Russian and French software developers. Empirical analysis used in our research is based on
the case study in two IT companies, in Russia and France. The results indicate that the main factors
leading to stress are work overload, uncertainty about the future and career, lack of the feedback and
limitations for creativity. Together, these factors form a common «professional risk zone». However,
their character and the degree of impact on workers do differ between two companies. In particular,
Russian programmers adapt better to stressors due to perceiving negative work conditions as close to
normal for an extended period of time. As result, the time when the stress moves into its detrimental
stage and starts affecting the performance remains stays unnoticed for both, management and worker.