{"id":171157,"date":"2026-08-17T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:55:22","slug":"tech-training-can-exacerbate-employee-burnout-canadian-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/171157\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech training can exacerbate employee burnout: Canadian study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Training intensified burnout&#8217;s effects<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Testing three possible buffers against burnout&#8217;s impact, Adeniyi found only technological training produced a statistically significant effect, and it moved in the opposite direction than expected.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Contrary to expectations, the results revealed that technological training exacerbated, rather than buffered, the negative relationship between burnout and perceived work ability,&#8221; Adeniyi wrote, adding that training &#8220;may place additional cognitive or emotional strain on already exhausted older workers, particularly if it is poorly timed, overly complex, or misaligned with their needs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Neither organizational justice nor computer self-efficacy showed a statistically significant moderating effect in the model, according to the dissertation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Adeniyi recommended organizations treat training &#8220;not as a one-size-fits-all solution, but as an intervention that requires thoughtful design and delivery,&#8221; pointing to self-paced modules, peer support models, and involving older workers in co-designing training content as alternatives. &#8220;Creating a culture that values supportive, inclusive, and user-informed training is essential,&#8221; Adeniyi wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Best practices for training older workers<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Here are some of the best practices around providing tech training for older workers, according to different sources:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Training intensified burnout&#8217;s effects Testing three possible buffers against burnout&#8217;s impact, Adeniyi found only technological training produced a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,46525,54655,54656],"class_list":["post-171157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-older-workers","tag-tech-training","tag-technological-change-and-an-aging-workforce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}