while recognizing the impact that technologycan have on stress, have not sought to provideconceptual and empirical understanding of thispervasive aspect of stress in today’s technologicalenvironment. In the absence of such understanding,organizations that may wish to analyze the stresscreatingeffects of ICTs on their employees do nothave structured frameworks to facilitate their efforts.This paper develops and validates a conceptual modelfor understanding technostress and its effects on theindividual’s job satisfaction, and organizational, andcontinuance commitment.Section 2 elaborates on the phenomenon