The cable must be cut. During the holidays, it is essential not to monitor your emails, not respond to applications or participate in a vision from your terebra. “Stay connected is to believe that you want. While we are slowly exhausted,” says the work psychologist Jean-Christophe Villette.
According to a meta -analysis published in 2025 that brings together several studies on the subject, we can obtain beneficial effects more than six weeks after the end of your vacation … provided that it respects certain principles.
Then, to rest well and benefit from a regenerative cut, the psychologist summarizes his advice with “the 3D method: delegate before, disconnected during and directly later.”
J-5 delegate
To make the most of the holidays, it is essential to leave the spirit released. And it is organized. First, it is a matter of announcing your departure and organization of continuity so as not to be disturbed during your vacation.
So begin to inform your colleagues (and not just their manager) that he leaves. Then, you must formalize a clear transfer and have relays that can respond to applications in your absence.
It is also recommended to prepare an automatic email that clearly warns that it will not consult your professional emails during the period and indicates the contact of the retransmission person.
As the date approaches, Jean-Christophe Villette also advises to lighten his agenda. It is not about providing a strategic meeting for a few hours from a vacation.
Finally, before leaving, you can activate the benefits of anticipation holidays. “You can prepare mentally visualizing the landscapes, the activities that make you happy, stimulates psychological well -being,” explains the specialist.
Disconnect without guilt
During the holidays, it is obviously a matter of disconnection. “What science teaches us is that it is not necessarily the duration of rupture what is significant, that we are going to leave two or three weeks, but what we are going to do during the holidays,” said Jean-Christophe Villette.
Concrete actions can make it possible to forget the office: first, provisionally uninstall professional requests. “If it is really necessary, you can provide a single weekly niche where you can reach emergencies,” he adds, while specifying that a reflection could take place in the company’s organization so that it does not happen.
To succeed in the cut, it can also be interesting to win an Internet cut during the first 48 hours of vacation. Sleeping with the phone outside the room can also be a solution. In any case, decrease speed, relax, see meditation, perhaps extremely beneficial.
It is also important to provide activities that make you feel good and make you happy and make sense to you.
It is already a matter of finding autonomy at your time, that is, choosing how you organize your days. “Whether to practice sports, do a creative activity … the worst are passive vacations, where we let ourselves go all day or where we submit the program of others,” he continues.
“You must choose activities that take it out of your comfort zone, where you will discover something else,” recommends the psychologist.
Finally, a very important point is to spend time with people who are loved by you. “Take the time to cultivate the essential bond with the people who count for you, even if these people live far, this is an opportunity to have quality exchanges, even by phone,” says Jean-Christophe Villette.
Directing his return
After a well -deserved vacation, when you have to return to the office, it is better not to restart at full speed without transition. “A brutal return to the work rate can break the beneficial effects of the holidays,” says Jean-Christophe Villette.
To restart the right foot, you must also hang the time to take stock. “Santuarizar half a day when you return to read your emails, order them, prioritize, become aware of problems,” he advises. According to him, this allows him to program his recovery and not feel overwhelmed by stress.
In addition, good vacation practices can always be applied. “Continue physical activities, keep walking, breathing, spending time with your loved ones.”
Finally, the specialist also asks employers to establish the conditions that allow employees to cut. Because even if the right to disconnect was dedicated in 2016, all companies do not respect it.
Therefore, it begs more clarity in the organization. “That is, communicate about the organization of the delegation, it is clear about the rules, it is forbidden to contact colleagues, or if they are sent to follow up, to clearly specify that they do not expect them to respond there.”
Source: BFM TV
