Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, July 22, 2025. The workplace is a place where routines are developed that often make it difficult to disconnect when a period of vacation and free time arrives. Hospiten stresses the importance of providing spaces for rest and disconnection to promote a better quality of life and overall wellbeing.
To explain this phenomenon, Silvia Morales Estupiñán, a psychologist in the child, adolescent and adult area at Hospiten Roca, says that it is a question of habits. "If the first thing we do when we wake up during the week is to check our work e-mail, when we go on vacation your brain will still be waiting for that habit," she explains. She also adds that "encouraging a work culture that values moments of rest and disconnection translates into a host of benefits for health and personal performance".
As for the psychological effects, Morales considers that the main consequences of a continuous connection with work can favor "increased stress and anxiety, sleep problems, tension and physical discomfort, risk of burnout, deterioration of personal and family relationships, and lower levels of productivity and creativity".
New technologies play a fundamental role in terms of the difficulties of disconnecting from the professional environment. According to Morales, "in an increasingly digitalized context, hyper connectivity has become an everyday phenomenon. He also adds that "the lack of digital disconnection can generate a progressive emotional wear that can lead to anxiety, insomnia, exhaustion and even burnout".
In this sense, she considers that "the constant exposure to devices and pending tasks keeps the brain in a state of continuous alert, which hinders the rest and recovery necessary for emotional and physical balance". The psychologist also identifies three major factors that can make it difficult to disconnect from work: technology, the high workload and organizational habits, understood as "the expectations and norms existing within an organization regarding the need to be constantly available for work".
To avoid this physical and emotional wear and tear of continuous connection with work, Morales proposes ten ideas that allow us to disconnect: establish clear limits with the use of devices, do physical exercise, take visual breaks, create disconnection rituals, create a defined work space, practice mindfulness or meditation, cultivate hobbies or interests, share social moments and connect with nature.
About Hospiten
Hospiten is an international healthcare network with more than 55 years of experience committed to providing the highest quality service, with 20 private medical-hospital centers in Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica and Panama, in addition to 175 outpatient medical centers, under the Clinic Assist brand. Founded by Dr. Pedro Luis Cobiella, it attends more than three million patients a year from all over the world and has a staff of more than 5,000 people, a number that will be reinforced in the Madrid region thanks to the construction of a general university hospital in Boadilla del Monte, which is due to be completed in 2026.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid - Hospiten is a subsidiary of the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (Texas, USA). With more than 20 years of history in Spain, MD Anderson Madrid - Hospiten currently has a Phase I Clinical Trials Unit, more than 150 medical specialists trained in oncology, a total of 87 hospital beds and state-of-the-art technological equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of different types of cancer.
This article is an English translation generated with AI from the original Spanish content. While we review content for clarity, the information is provided for general informational purposes only and should not be considered medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional for diagnosis or treatment.