Chris Litster is the leader of Buildium. Workers going remote during pandemic — and not taking time off — is the perfect recipe for burnout. But burnout doesn't have to be inevitable; doing things like setting clear start and end hours, and scheduling in downtime during the day is important. Leaders should also enforce PTO, and make sure employees are take time off. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. If I think back to my first experience working from home — as a remote director with IBM back in the early 2000s — what I remember most is that damn blinking red light. As "at-home" workers, we were told to leave our laptops open at all times and to stay logged into an early chat app called Sametime.