Digital Detox and Employee Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

This systematic literature review studies 18 peer-reviewed published articles between 2010 and 2025 that observes the prevailing relationship between digital detox and employee well-being. Being backed by the Job Demands - Resources (JD-R) model, this review synthesizes how digital detox acts as a recovery and job resource mechanism in the contemporary workplaces. Further, PRISMA guidelines were followed and Scopus database was methodically searched using Boolean combinations of terms such as “digital detox,” “digital fatigue,” and “employee well-being”. In order to further ensure the comprehensiveness of this review, this search was extended to include articles available on peer-reviewed journal publications listed from the ABDC list Journals. Findings presented that digital detox interventions can be categorized mainly as device-based, platform-based, and environment-based which would significantly reduce stress, anxiety, and burnout by improving job satisfaction, quality of sleep, and work-life balance. In gist the study provides theoretical, managerial, and research contributions by establishing digital detox as an emerging organizational resource strategy that improves workplace wellness and extends the JD-R framework.