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French companies will be required to guarantee a "right to disconnect" to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking. From January 1, a new employment law will enter into force that obliges organisations with more than 50 workers to start negotiations to define the rights of employees to ignore their smartphones.
Overuse of digital devices has been blamed for everything from burnout to sleeplessness as well as relationship problems, with many employees uncertain of when they can switch off. The French measure is intended to tackle the so-called "always-on" work culture that has led to a surge in usually unpaid overtime—while also giving employees flexibility to work from outside the office.
http://phys.org/news/2017-01-french-workers-disconnect.html
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(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday January 03 2017, @06:17AM
I know what they ( the banking elite ) are doing, and it really sickens me.
But what sickens me even more is the docile public accepts it and will play the game by the rules set out by the elite.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday January 03 2017, @10:23AM
Well, the system is set up that you'll have a very hard time if you don't play by the rules.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Touché) by RS3 on Tuesday January 03 2017, @05:31PM
That system is only in place because sheeple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple [wikipedia.org] empower it by creating and being the market for it.
I have a whole lot more to say about it but you're spared because I have to get back to work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @10:28AM
Debt is offset by government funding. Two factors are behind it: (A) It incentivizes universities to increase fee (B) It allows government to interfere in college administration.
The unintended consequence is that it puts pressure on colleges to perform, so they hire smart poor students from abroad instead of subsidizing local poor students who aren't doing good.
Now, as a banker, it is your duty to realize that this condition is ripe for profiteering. You can't really blame them, that's their job.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 03 2017, @05:01PM
You can't really blame them, that's their job.
Not everything that exists should exist...nor is it desirable that it exists
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04 2017, @05:26AM
I am not saying that it should exist or it is right. I am highlighting the area where problem exists vs. the agent exploiting that area. Banks are just leeches and they are not going to go away because they are part of human nature. Government involvement in policy development of higher education, though, is a problem and it can be solved relatively easily, as long as we the people want it.