France: Right to Disconnect

After hours!     (Photo by Janette)

Many of us are leashed to our smartphones day and night.  Long after standard office hours, we are still fielding work-related e-mails.

Not so much in France.

The French “pride themselves on maintaining more of a distinction between work life and personal life.”  They recently passed a law which allows workers the right to ignore

business e-mails that arrive after hours.  This is formally known as the “right to disconnect.”

This law unfortunately only applies to companies with more than 50 employees.  Sole proprietors might therefore display signs such as this:  Why work for someone else 8 hours per day when you can work for yourself 24/7?

Resources

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/6-unfamiliar-office-rules-other-countries-swear-by-%e2%80%94-but-americans-just-dont-understand/ss-BBFs3JH?ocid=BHEA000#image=5