Emotional exhaustion at work: Let's be more open here

We really need less articles about CEOs who took a year off -- rather, we need a path through the BS for the rest of us.

Emotional exhaustion at work -- i.e. work stress, burnout -- is unfortunately fairly normative for a lot of white-collar, western-world workers. A lot of people have an unhealthy relationship to their work, see almost no work-life balance, and almost never take a vacation. If you threw a rock in the general direction of any website on the Internet, I be…