Autonomy in work location decision and burnout in behavioral health providers: Lessons learned from COVID-19

•Burnout among behavioral health workers remains common, and the proportion of behavioral health providers reporting burnout varies by occupation types.•Burnout rates differ across providers who telework but had differing levels of autonomy pre-COVID.•Providers who chose to keep coming into work in person reported less burnout than providers who previously could not telework and teleworked during the pandemic.•Providing greater autonomy in work-location decision might represent one approach to reducing burnout.