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Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

Burned out in 2025? Here’s how CEOs switch off from the big job

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Between Christmas and New Year—when you forget all sense of what day of the week it is—can be the perfect time to blow off steam, unwind, and refresh for the year ahead.

The only problem? You’re often still stressed from the manic run-up to the holidays and reeling over whether you completed your to-do list before switching on the out-of-office. Nobody gets that more than CEOs and founders, who often admit to struggling to switch off from the top job. 

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