---
title: "Rest and Wellbeing"
url: https://call-in-sick.com/category-rest-and-wellbeing
description: "Entries on recovery, returning to work and the way absence policies are written."
published: 2026-09-06
updated: 2026-09-06
---

# Rest and Wellbeing

Published 2026-09-06

Entries on recovery, returning to work and the way absence policies are written. 4 entries

### Tuesday19 May 2020

#### [Rest days and the shape of recovery](https://call-in-sick.com/rest-days-and-the-shape-of-recovery)

Recovery is not linear, and almost every scheduling assumption in working life pretends that it is. A person is off, then a day arrives, and they are back.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Rest and Wellbeing](https://call-in-sick.com/category-rest-and-wellbeing) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/rest-days-and-the-shape-of-recovery)

### Thursday30 April 2020

#### [What people mean by a mental health day](https://call-in-sick.com/what-people-mean-by-a-mental-health-day)

The phrase has become common enough to have lost a clear meaning.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Rest and Wellbeing](https://call-in-sick.com/category-rest-and-wellbeing) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/what-people-mean-by-a-mental-health-day)

### Thursday23 January 2020

#### [Coming back after a long absence](https://call-in-sick.com/coming-back-after-a-long-absence)

A return after weeks or months away is a different event from a return after a Tuesday off, and treating it as the same thing is the most common way it goes wrong.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Rest and Wellbeing](https://call-in-sick.com/category-rest-and-wellbeing) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/coming-back-after-a-long-absence)

### Thursday21 November 2019

#### [Writing an absence policy in plain words](https://call-in-sick.com/writing-an-absence-policy-in-plain-words)

Most absence policies are written for a dispute that will probably never happen and read by a person who feels unwell at half past six in the morning.

Posted by Call In Sick Tips Revealed · Filed under [Rest and Wellbeing](https://call-in-sick.com/category-rest-and-wellbeing) · [Permalink](https://call-in-sick.com/writing-an-absence-policy-in-plain-words)