TAP reading note: Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future

What the study found

This review follows recovery across work breaks, evenings, weekends and vacations. It connects these opportunities with work conditions, boundaries between work and non-work life, and evidence from field and intervention studies.

Scope & limitations

Integrative review of work-recovery research, emphasizing daily and longitudinal field studies.

Evidence differs across settings and time scales. A pattern in employee well-being is not automatically evidence about physiological load or the effectiveness of every break activity.

Population & sample

Integrative review of work-recovery research, emphasizing daily and longitudinal field studies.

Exposure or intervention

Recovery opportunities and processes within and outside the working day.

Outcomes

Well-being, motivation and performance, alongside predictors and contextual differences.

Time frame

Breaks, evenings, weekends and vacations. Volume published in 2022; first online in November 2021.

Research funding

Not yet checked against the full publication.

Research conflicts of interest

Not yet checked against the full publication.

Reading scope

Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal.

References

1. Sabine Sonnentag, Bonnie Hayden Cheng, Stacey L. Parker (2022). Recovery from Work: Advancing the Field Toward the Future. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012420-091355

Publication record

TAP-RDN-0021 · v0.1 · English

Scientific review has not been completed for this edition.

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