CIO warns many IT workers face dangerous stress: "At the Share conference today, William Cross, CIO of Seminole Electric Cooperative, warned attendees that IT staffers work too much, get too stressed and are endangering their lives. August 15, 2006 (Computerworld) -- BALTIMORE -- When it comes to testing an IT system, William Cross, the CIO of Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc. in Tampa, Fla., uses an approach that his staff describes as "brutal." But it's a system Cross hopes will avoid sleep-disturbing middle-of-the-night production failures -- part of a larger effort to keep his staff from getting stressed out.

"I work very hard to make sure that my staff doesn't work overtime," said Cross, who spoke here today at the Share conference for IBM users. "We go to great lengths to help keep people from being called on nights and weekends."

The reason: People who work in the middle of the night are more prone to mistakes, he said.