Time to recover between busy days
Hard weeks are normal. What matters is whether anything follows them. This is the second part of employee capacity.
What it looks like when it is missing: one busy stretch runs into the next. Weekends carry work. A day off is spent catching up.
What a team can change: protect the gap after a heavy period, agree when messages can wait, and plan the next stretch so it does not begin where the last one ended.
What it is not: a perk. Time to recover is part of how the work is arranged.
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