Returning to Work After Burnout: How to Avoid a Relapse

Returning to work after burnout is a challenge of its own. At home, in a calm routine, your strength gradually comes back, and it feels like you're ready. But a week at the office goes by, and the old state catches up with you: the same tasks, the same pace, the same people.

A relapse after returning is not uncommon. It's not that the person is weak or didn't rest enough. It's that they have changed, while the conditions stayed the same.

What follows is about how to re-enter work without sliding back, and what to do if the slide has already begun.