Are You Taking Time Off?

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The ideal employee works really hard when they're in the office, and then goes home at a reasonable time. Research shows that if managers truly disconnect on their vacation, employees are more likely to do it too. We need to set a cultural norm that that's not what the ideal employee looks like. And we find that employees who take time every week to priortize their own work and their life outside of work report being 30 to forty ent more focused on tasks at work.

Are you exhausted? We are. Between the long hours working from home during a pandemic, the mental load of worrying about the outcome of the election, and the lack of sleep that all of this has brought on, it’s no wonder that we’re tired and stressed.

Emotional exhaustion, as workplace well-being expert Mandy O’Neil explains, is one sign of burnout. She shares antidotes and ways to protect ourselves from experiencing it in the first place. Not having enough time for the people and things you care about can cause burnout. Happiness researcher Ashley Whillans gives us advice on how to find and protect that time.

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