Say What Now? It Is Now Illegal to Check Work Email After 6pm in France

BY: Denver Sean

Published 11 years ago

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It’s good to be an employee in France right now.

Unions and employers in France have come to an agreement that employees will no longer check their work-related email before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m.

The deal, which is legally binding, upholds the spirit of the 35-hour work week that France implemented in 1999.

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We wonder how this affects those who work best during the night hours. Our emails come in all day and all night — while not legally being able to answer them might be nice, our productivity would surely suffer.

Is this something you’d like to see for America?

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