The Daily Mail has reported that France is set to give workers the ‘right to disconnect’ from work emails outside of their contracted hours in a bid to ease pressure and offer a better work-life balance. Workers will be able to ignore work-generated telephone calls emails during evenings and weekends in an attempt to help them have more of a social life outside of their working week. France already operates a strict 35-hour working week policy. The article states that the 35-hour week, introduced in 1999, has come under threat from the increasingly widespread use of smartphones and other mobile devices, with the new Labour law hoping to ease workers ‘burning-out’.

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