Push for right to disconnect requires less wishful thinking

The rule, which is gaining global traction, seems infantilising. There are better ways to balance workers’ rights and business efficiency.

Advocates seem to imagine the right to disconnect can achieve bigger and grander ambitions – including extinguishing burnout. Can it really? PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
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Is your boss exploitative? Is your company extractive? And are you completely helpless?

Judging from the slew of new workplace rules globally, one gets the impression that middle managers must be slave-driving villains about to turn staff into serfs.

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