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Take a few vacation days and turn them into long stretches off — by lining them up with public holidays and weekends.
A two-day weekend isn't long enough to truly switch off — four days is. Why? ›
On a normal weekend, day one is spent decompressing and by Sunday evening the workweek is already creeping back in. Researchers call the missing ingredient psychological detachment, and it's what actually protects against burnout.1 Stretching a weekend to four or five days clears that threshold — and spreading several across the year does more for well-being than one big trip, whose benefits tend to fade within a week of returning.2
Sources: 1. Fritz & Sonnentag, “The Weekend Matters” · 2. “Maximizing Recovery: The Superiority of Frequent Vacations”