[Closed] France leading by example

Backward step I think. I want flexibility and not to be tied to my desk and the office for 8 - 10 hours. I'd love to shoot out of the office at 10am after 2.5hrs or so of work for a few hours ride if the weather is good, come back mid afternoon, put in a few more hours before going home and seeing the family and having a civilised dinner with them, then when the kids are in bed catch up with a few hours in the evening. I work better in short bursts of work rather than slogging it out for hours on end anyway.

Backward step I think.

I disagree. I think it's unhealthy to have no seperation between work and home life. You need some time to yourself! 🙂

I just turn the works phone off out of hours.

I don't really see the issue. If I'm not on call my work phone goes off after work and I don't have work emails coming through to my personal phone or computer.

The reason the company I work for give you a works phone and a laptop is so you can be contacted and work 24/7 from anywhere in the world....
Only using the works phone when at work which for us is office based would pretty much make it a pointless expense...

My work phone situation differs from above. Mobile on my desk during office hours allows calls direct to me rather than attempting to contact me through a central UK call centre.

I don't really see the issue.

Many companies have developed a working culture where people feel obliged to deal with emails out of working hours, same culture where people think they have to work a couple of extra hours every day or will be seen as lazy.

It seems perfectly reasonable that government steps in and creates laws to protect people from such damaging practices.

The reason the company I work for give you a works phone and a laptop is so you can be contacted and work 24/7 from anywhere in the world....

People cannot choose when they are working at optimal efficiency. Chaining someone to a desk or office for x number of hours a day doesn't mean they're doing anything useful. It's ultimately all about delivery. Obviously it is also highly job dependant. After over 10 years of doing an operationally focussed job where I felt I couldn't switch off because if it went pair shaped any time it was down to me, i'm now happy to have changed to a role that is not directly operational focussed and that I can do completely flexibly. I would love to shoot out during the day to hit the trails or maybe just go and do some jobs around the house rather than saving them up for the evening or weekends.

So what if you end up working more hours one week, peoples workload tends to vary from week to week so why shouldn't your working hours? Its alot less stressful if you can pick and choose when to work your hours so you can break it up and intersperse it with other things.

Work has got to change in the future. More and more people with less and less jobs due to automation and computerisation. What are all these people going to do sat at their desks in their offices for 8 hours a day?

They don't pay anyone anymore for the work they do outside of the standard 40 (which is our contract) the "compensation" is a shines iPhone with unlimited calls and data.
By some master stroke they have managed to convince people that it is all normal and they should be responding to emails at all hours.
I think it is effin madness and even more so when people provide their own device and phone contract because " well, I need one anyway" ..
Sadly some companies will try to take the piss and some people need to be protected from themselves...

I have neither work or personal phones which they don't love...

Many companies have developed a working culture where people feel obliged to deal with emails out of working hours

this has led to a nation of NOBHEADS who think your being rude if you dont reply within 6 seconds , or feel so entitled the next email berates you for not getting back to them .......yeah arse to that

By example - the state over common sense ?? What is the world coming to?