Burnout at Home — The Remote Worker's Fix by Diogo Linhares

New Release

Work is following
you home.
Here's how to stop it.

Burnout at Home: The Remote Worker's Fix

For remote & hybrid workers

When your home is also your office, work doesn't end — it just lingers. This book shows you exactly how to build an off switch: a practical system for stopping the bleed into evenings, weekends, and sleep, before burnout quietly takes everything with it.

About the author

What this book does

Not "set better boundaries." An actual system.

Generic advice tells you to disconnect. This book shows you how — with tools built specifically for the way remote and hybrid work actually works.

01

Find out where your time is actually going

A 3-day audit that turns "I work too much" into a real number — and shows you exactly what kind of overtime is stealing your evenings.

02

Identify your specific burnout pattern

Exhaustion, cynicism, and loss of confidence are different problems with different fixes. The book's self-assessment tells you which one is running your system right now.

03

Design a shutdown ritual that actually works

Remote workers don't have a commute to decompress. This chapter gives you a replacement — a simple closing routine that trains your brain that the day is actually done.

04

Have the conversation with your manager — without drama

Specific scripts for setting realistic availability windows, so you're not the one who always responds at 10 PM without ever agreeing to.

05

Make it last — not just for one good week

A monthly reset and a 30-day plan built to survive real pressure, travel, crunch periods, and the inevitable weeks when everything slips.


Free with the book

The Official Workbook

Every exercise from the book in one place — fill it in your browser, print it, or save it as a PDF. Track your overtime, map what's draining you, build your shutdown ritual, and log the seven-day READ experiment.

Use it alongside the book, or return to it whenever work starts creeping back in.


Diogo Linhares

Diogo Linhares has been working remotely since 2020, managing distributed teams while navigating the same burnout patterns this book describes. He wrote it because the advice that exists doesn't match how remote work actually feels from the inside.

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