Chris Gayomali
fastcompany.com
April 10, 2014
There are many ways to distance yourself from the crushing tidal wave that is your work inbox. You can, for instance, impose an email sabbatical, which is supposed to be good for your mental health. Or you can plow through all of your emails in one go with the savvy use of search filters.
Now, there’s a new lifehack for dealing with email 24/7, and it might just be our favorite yet: Move to France. The Guardian reports that the country just made it illegal for employees to attend to “work-related material on their computers or smartphones” after they clock out for the day:
Now employers’ federations and unions have signed a new, legally binding labour agreement that will require staff to switch off their phones after 6pm. Under the deal, which affects a million employees in the technology and consultancy sectors (including the French arms of Google, Facebook, Deloitte and PwC), employees will also have to resist the temptation to look at work-related material on their computers or smartphones –or any other kind of malevolent intrusion into the time they have been nationally mandated to spend on whatever the French call la dolce vita.
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