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Holiday over? Seven expert tips for how to avoid back-to-work stress

  • Written by: Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
Holiday over? Seven expert tips for how to avoid back-to-work stressDon't try to get to the bottom of your inbox on your first day back.CrizzyStudio/Shutterstock

The philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill once wrote about why he didn’t take holidays. “No holidays allowed,” he explained, “lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired.”

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