How to Get Over Burnout When You Can’t Take Time Off

Rethink how you approach both your job and your downtime

Rebecca Fishbein
Forge
Published in
6 min readNov 7, 2018

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Photo by Gift Habeshaw

Burnout in the workplace isn’t uncommon, and it’s not pleasant, either. Data from the American Institute of Stress suggests that 80 percent of U.S. workers feel stressed out about their jobs, with 40 percent in roles that are “very” or “extremely” stressful.

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Rebecca Fishbein
Forge
Writer for

Rebecca Fishbein is a writer in Brooklyn & the author of GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE YOU HATE, out 10/15. Find her on Twitter at @bfishbfish.