Emotions at work are central to employee well-being and organizational outcomes such as performance; studying them is crucial to understanding psycho-organizational mechanisms. While prior studies have largely focused on anxiety, anger, boredom, and positive emotions like joy, fewer interventions have targeted relaxation as a key recovery state. The Restpod® project introduces a restorative environmental intervention designed to reduce negative affective states while enhancing joy and relaxation. This dual focus highlights the importance of considering both deleterious and restorative affective processes in workplace settings. Restorative environments have been widely studied in environmental psychology for their ability to enhance well-being. Restpod® represents an innovative application of biophilic design principles to create a micro-environment aimed at providing workers with a restorative experience during daily routines. A total of 106 (56%female, mean(sd) age = 39.1(9.7)) participants took part in the study. We examined the effects of a 15-minute Restpod® pause (week 2) on emotions, life and work satisfaction, and performance (daily measured across three weeks). A series of mixed-design ANOVAs was conducted, with Time (Week 1, Week 2, Week 3) as the within-subjects factor and baseline burnout level (low, medium, high) as the between-subjects factor. Interactions between Time and burnout emerged, suggesting that the benefits of a Restpod® break were stronger among participants with high burnout. Specifically, high-burnout participants showed a significant decrease in stress (t(92) =3.27, p=.054), anger (t(92) =4.09, p=.003), and boredom (t(92)=3.37, p=.040) in week 2. No significant interaction was observed for relaxation, which increased across all groups (F(4,184) = 3.68, p = .027). No significant differences were found for life and work satisfaction and performance. Thus, this kind of intervention could be a useful tool to support and help restore people at work, and can be particularly effective for people who report high levels of burnout.