Dedicated intentional recovery time makes workers more productive. Here’s why

Coauthors Vicky Smith and Lesley Cooper break down how strategic recovery can be a cost-effective way to boost team productivity.

We all now live and work in an increasingly fast world, characterized by multiple, often conflicting demands on our time and attention—and an overarching pressure to achieve more with the same or fewer resources. Sometimes, multifactorial demands and pressures like these can be energizing, pushing us to perform at a higher level. Eventually, however, unless intentional recovery features in our routine performance behavior, energizing busyness can become a depleting strain. This is why the “do more with less” strategy touted by many career experts is a mistake. Because unlike computers, humans are not built to be always on.

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