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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
[Also Covered By]: The Guardian , Sky News
(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.