Comparison of situations before the COVID-19 crisis (T1: September–October 2019) and during the COVID-19 crisis (T2: March–April 2020) showed a 0.32 increase in technostress among our sample of the Finnish working population, using a 6-item scale from 6 to 42 (see Table 1). This change was not statistically significant, however. Of all the participants, 17.09% reported a substantial increase (+6 points at least) in technostress, whereas 69.72% reported little or no change at all, and 13.19% reported a significant decrease (−6 points at least) in technostress. Substantial increases in technostress were reported in service and education sectors, in which 24.33% and 22.02%, respectively, reported substantially higher technostress scores.
