Table 1.
Participant overview
| Name a | Gender | Working status | Occupation before burnout | Occupation at interview | Rehabilitation duration - in months | Interview time - in minutes |
| Deborahb | F | 100%(5 days per week) | Scientist | Change agent living environmentsd | 12 | 120 + 50f |
| Mayab | F | 80%(4 days per week) | Marketing / consultant | Marketing / consultantc | 14 | 75 + 55f |
| Jackb | M | 80–100% | Financial consultant | Company owner (advisor workplace health)d | 5.5 | 125 |
| Clarab | F | 100% | Marketing at a university | Scientistc | 18 | 97 + 45f |
| Charlesb | M | 100% | Project leader, railway construction | Project leader, railway constructionc | 6 | 96 + 43f |
| Annab | F | 80–100% | Traineeship Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, advisor | Company owner (lifestyle coach)d | 18 | 117 |
| Ivanna | F | 80–100% | Scientist | Scientistd | 18 | 109 + 52f |
| Yasmine | F | 100% | ICT specialist | Company owner (advisor workplace health)d | 3 | 79 |
| Yoshito | M | 20–40% | Scientist | Scientist, lecturer | > 15e | 154 |
Note. The participants’ ages at the time of the interviews were: 32, 27, 29, 26, 38, 29, 27, 31, 26 (to protect participants’ identity, the ages are not mentioned in the same sequence as the interviews). aParticipants were given fictitious names; the first letter of the name represents the order of the interviews; bContribution master student; cChange of job tasks / responsibilities; dChange of organization; eStill rehabilitating; fParticipated in the participant check.