France passed the first law protecting an employee’s right to ignore work messages…
The right to ignore your boss after hours is becoming law across Europe, even as workers and employers alike remain largely unaware it exists.
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Lachlan Brown is a Co-Publisher of Silicon Canals and helps set editorial direction across Technology and Power, Work and Digital Life, and Relationships and Society. His background includes a Diploma of Psychological Studies and a decade of building and operating online businesses.
The right to ignore your boss after hours is becoming law across Europe, even as workers and employers alike remain largely unaware it exists.
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