The aim of the study is to find the level of emotional exhaustion of the employees working in the select IT sectors of Coimbatore city and also to find the relation between job stresses, emotional exhaustion on job performance of the employees and to find the factors influencing job stress of employees working in the select IT sector of Coimbatore city. Questionnaire is issued to collect the data from the respondents and the data is analysed using SPSS software. The results of the study proves that there is a high level of association between the factor contributing to stress at work and the stress relief method adopted by the employees and there is a negative relation between emotional exhaustion and job stress with job performance.

KEYWORDS: Emotional exhaustion, Job performance and Job stress,