No Email Allowed

From USA Today:
"France bans work e-mail after 6 p.m."

France already has a 35-hour work week, and a new rule is designed to make sure that it doesn't start shading toward 40 hours because of work-related e-mail. The Guardian reports that the rule forbids workers from checking their phones or computers for work stuff after 6 p.m., and it forbids employers from pressuring them to do so. The move apparently doesn't affect all workers in France, but it does cover about 1 million workers in the tech industry — including French employees of Google and Facebook. At Fox Business, a U.S. labor expert finds it hard to believe the IT industry can manage such a draconian shut-off time. "There's always something going wrong off the clock — when a computer goes down, it doesn't go down between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m." A post at Fast Company agrees that it might be tough to enforce, but adds that "it's a nice perk to have in any case." Elsewhere, Germany already has a similar rule in place, while Sweden is experimenting with a 30-hour work week.

^ This is just plain stupid. It is merely another attempt for a Government to treat their own citizens as little children who can not decide on anything themselves. ^

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/04/11/newser-france-work-email-ban/7592125/