Fear of an increased workload once we return, working longer hours in order to keep up with the fast pace, we’re worried that other people will assess our time off as being slack, lazy, or incompetent. And even when we do have time off work, we may silence the alarm clock and avoid an office commute, but we often use whitespace to get things done: paint a room of the house, clean the garden until our bones ache, polish the boat, or carpool kids to birthday parties and sporting events. Time off often means we rehearse what we will do next.
