Burnout | What is the 'summer standoff' and how is it affecting your business?

One of the keywords that will spring to the minds of many when considering the lockdown that has gripped the UK since March of this year will be hibernation.

For over 100 days, the country’s people anchored themselves within the confines of their home, only leaving for short trips to the shops or for a brief period of exercise and as time spent in front of the TV, computer or, let’s face it, in bed sleeping their anxieties away soared, the social settings for which the UK has previously been so famous gathered dust.

Theatres, cinemas, concert venues, pubs clubs and holiday homes were all closed. Cities across the nation were as silent as the villages that surround them. No locals, no tourists, no day-trippers.

Unsurprisingly, this had a dramatic effect on the generally-accepted system by which the people of the UK take respite from their working lives; with nowhere to go and so much time to kill within the confines of their own homes, professionals had absolutely no motivation to take any paid leave.