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Long vacations aren't helping much with burnout and depression related - that's what I read just today and I totally agree. I'm fighting this thing for years.

If you can lower your hours/day AND if you can take few days off much more frequently - that should help in the long term.

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I’m the opposite - low hours and frequent days off don’t help me with burnout - I need to forget all about work and unplug completely for a long time.

I think this is very dependent on what you do during the hours you’re not working. If you’re just scrolling your phone or playing video games, that’s probably not very restorative. A key thing would be to do other things, like exercise, take a cooking class, be social with other people, etc.

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