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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 03 2017, @03:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the work-when-they-pay dept.

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

[Also Covered By]: The Guardian , Sky News


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  • (Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Tuesday January 03 2017, @12:20PM

    by Kilo110 (2853) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 03 2017, @12:20PM (#448868)

    I'd rather take a 30 min call on Saturday than spend hours fixing the problem on Monday when they inevitably fuck it up.

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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:54PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Tuesday January 03 2017, @01:54PM (#448892) Journal

    As long as this is a good-will thing, I agree. I also fixed/updated things on weekends once in a while. Since I'm working on a CI environment, it is often much more relaxed to spend a weekend, while no-one else is using the system and a minor fuck-up can be fixed without much pressure. Even if I didn't plan for it, but I'm not otherwise occupied, I might take a look at my mail once in a while and fix occurring problems.

    But I get the free-time during the coming week in return, and when I have plans to do a weekend trip with my family or just want to recover from a difficult week, I do that and I'll be damned if I let myself be coerced into constantly checking my Smartphone or let myself be woken up just because something at work went wrong.

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