Happiness at Work: Between Business Strategy and the Legal Duty to Prevent Burnout By Joana Capaz Coelho For many workers, summer represents a period of pause, physical and emotional recovery, and reconnection with their personal lives. Holidays make it possible to interrupt, albeit temporarily, the intense pace of everyday professional life, reduce stress levels, and restore energy. However, now that September marks the full resumption of professional activity, it is important to ask whether organisations are genuinely prepared to preserve this balance or whether, on the contrary, they reproduce work models that quickly lead to overload, exhaustion, and burnout. It is precisely in this context of returning to work that the reflection on happiness at work acquires particular relevance. More than a concept associated with individual well-being, happiness at work has now become a strategic factor for organisations and a dimension that is gaining increasing relevance from a legal pe...