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posted by on Wednesday May 24 2017, @05:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the 10-weeks-vacation dept.

Do you leave work behind when you physically move out of your workplace? Or do the texts, messages, emails keep pulling you back, monopolizing your life beyond work hours? Do you believe that this can get to a point where an individual eventually breaks down?

These questions were answered with a new French labour reform law enforced from January 1 2017. It requires French companies with more than 50 workers to guarantee their employees a "right to disconnect" from technology after office hours. Companies need to start discussions with employees to define their rights to ignore work related messages. If a deal cannot be reached, the company must publish a charter that would state the demands on, and rights of, employees out-of-hours.

[...] Other countries too have attempted to address the issue of out-of-office work stress. In Japan, Tokyo's governor has ordered strict monitoring of those working beyond 8pm. A German law forbids managers from contacting employees on vacation. South Korea, known for its gruelling work hours, launched a work-life balance campaign last year to encourage annual leaves.

But despite these examples, most remain skeptical of such a law being passed in other countries, especially the U.S., where long workweeks and foregone vacation time are the norm. In 2015, the French worked an average of 1,482 hours a year, while Americans worked about 1,790 hours. U.S. workers not just get less vacation time than their European counterparts but also end up using only 73% of it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:44AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:44AM (#514727)

    Ugh go away already. Your hard line capitalist / libertarian stance is old and boring. Only slightly less spammy than the violently imposed monopoly troll.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 24 2017, @08:48AM (3 children)

    Yeah, that's what I thought. Don't come at me unprepared again.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @02:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @02:31PM (#514819)

      Did you miss the part where the economies aren't socialist?

      Your insights really are tired and worn-out.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:33PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 24 2017, @03:33PM (#514850)

      I think someone should look into the moderation on your comments. Seems like you get upmodded for the trashiest comments.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday May 24 2017, @06:58PM

        We don't police moderations except to see that mod-bombs don't happen and Spam isn't abused. Would you like us to? Bearing in mind I'm almost always the one doing what little policing we actually do, unless it involves me. Myself, I'd rather trust our widely varied community to work it out in the end through moderations.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday May 24 2017, @01:22PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 24 2017, @01:22PM (#514795) Journal
    Yep. You lost. I'll note here that OriginalOwner has actually thought out this stuff and has some good working examples of worker-owned coops and businesses. These happen to be wholly capitalist since they are by definition privately owned capital (going by the real world definition of capitalism rather than OriginalOwner's pet definition of capitalism). I find it interesting that capitalist societies have the best examples of socialism as you think it should be.