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French Workers Can Now Ignore Their Bosses After Office Hours

The move is expected to tackle burnout, sleeplessness, and relationship problems.

 

For French people, the new year is out to be quite merry as the nation has passed a law that allows employees to ignore work emails after the office hours. In simple words, if your boss asks you to make changes to a PPT during your dinner time, you have a right to ignore him. With this move, the country seeks to tackle the "always on" work culture.



As per TheGuardian, the law was pushed by labour minister Myriam El Khomri. In 2015, he commissioned a report that warned about the health impact of such unpaid overtime work. Many medical experts have also linked the overuse of smartphones to burnout, sleeplessness, and relationship problems. French research group Eleas claims that it found that more than a third of French workers used their devices to do work out-of-hours every day. Around 60 percent of workers thought that it is essential to have a regulation that clarifies their rights.

Under the new law, companies with over 50 workers will negotiate to define the rights of employees to ignore their smartphones. According to the reports, big companies such as Volkswagen and Daimler in Germany and Axa in France have already modified the work flow to limit out-of-hours messaging.


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