How Vacations Influence Burnout, Stress, and Employee Performance: A Comprehensive Review

Abstract

Burnout is key concern for researchers in the current organizational setup. The impacts of burnout are clearly visible in the performance and productivity of employees. Keeping it in view this article is framed under systematic review design aiming to citing studies to explaining relationship burnout, stress, health and performance and productivity. In addition, vacations have been studied to have certain effects decreasing burnout and improving performance and productivity. For this purpose, a total of 38 studies and reports are sampled from different databases. It is evident that burnout affects mental and physical health and social life leading to decline performance and decreased productivity. Different coping strategies have been proven effective whereby vacations are one of them. The most important finding is types, nature and activities in the vacations which makes the vacations more effective to reduce burnout, improve performance and productivity.