The Effect of Technostressers on Universities Teaching Staff Work Performance During COVID19 Pandemic Lockdown

The World Health Organization declared the COVID19 pandemic in March 2020 as one of the most rapid outbreaks in known human history (Gros et al , 2020) To adapt to the new situation, universities around the world have activated online learning plans using information communication technology (ICT) The teaching staff had to adapt to using ICT rapidly and to turn their homes into a working station Being bombarded with all the changes it is believed that like all workers using ICT teaching staff is suffering technostress coming from different techno stressors associated with the use of ICT during the complete lockdown This paper is a call to start studying the effect of techno stressors on university teaching staff work performance In this paper, we are suggesting a transactional model of stress as a theoretical background to understand the way teaching © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing