Digital revolution in the form of continuous refinements in the IT world and IT sector added more to this shift. Work today is no longer ‘result oriented’, it is ‘people oriented’. No place for personal consideration and relations anywhere. Employees are evaluated on the basis of their performance and contribution to the organization. In the struggle to prove themselves ‘fit’ for the job, workers are exposed to magnified levels of stress and strain. Software professionals too are not an exception to the rule. They are those agile technology workers functioning under dynamic technological environment, where the up gradations are so fast and unpredictable. The present study evaluates the parameters that contribute to job stress among software professionals in Chennai and assesses the impact of each of these dimensions on the performance of the employees from a sample study of 100 software professionals. The study throws light to the fact that sources of job stress are inversely related to job performance. Thus the study calls for the alarming need to take IT companies to mitigate the negative impact of job stress on the performance of Software professionals.