Always on, never done?: How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?

Johannes Wendsche; Jessica de Bloom; Christine Syrek; Tim Vahle-Hinz

doi:10.1177/23970022211004598

Always on, never done? How the mind recovers after a stressful workday?

Johannes Wendsche^*
, Jessica de Bloom
, Christine Syrek
, Tim Vahle-Hinz

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Many workers experience their jobs as effortful or even stressful, which can result in strain. Although recovery from work would be an adaptive strategy to prevent the adverse effects of work-related strain, many workers face problems finding enough time to rest and to mentally disconnect from work during nonwork time. What goes on in workers’ minds after a stressful workday? What is it about their jobs that makes them think about their work? This special issue aims to bridge the gap between research on recovery processes mainly examined in Occupational Health Psychology, and research on work stress and working hours, often investigated in the field of Human Resource Management. We first summarize conceptual and theoretical streams from both fields of research. In the following, we discuss the contributions of the five special issue papers and conclude with key messages and directions for further research.

Original language	English
Journal	German Journal of Human Resource Management
Volume	35
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/23970022211004598
Publication status	Published - 2021
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Johannes Wendsche was supported by a grant from the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health during the preparation of this special issue (project F 2431 “Recovery within and beyond the context of work—effects and design approaches in a changing world of work”). Jessica de Bloom was supported by the Academy of Finland (grant: 308718). We would like to thank Virginia Mattila for her excellent language editing of our manuscript(s) and her flexibility in supporting us.

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Detachment
human resource management
problem-solving pondering
recovery
rumination
work reflection

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Publication forum level 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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