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• IT workers’ high level of private life satisfaction (on the scale adopted in the research); in
comparison with workers outside IT, IT workers claim a higher level of satisfaction. The
high level of private life satisfaction was accounted for in categories of placing professional
work quite high in the hierarchy of private values and job satisfaction (“self-realization”)
connected with having a profession that wins public recognition (according to CBOS –
Polish Public Opinion Research Centre).
• An attitude externally perceived as “lack of conscientiousness” or “being unconcerned
with anything.” It may be perceived by highly qualied IT people themselves as defending
their freedom and independence as ...