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: 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.