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When workers proposed dropping down to less than 10-hour days, employers were horrified.
It’s easy for bosses to virtue-signal about self-care without providing the necessary means to prevent burn out and other hazards in the first place. But in order to actually practice self-care, workers need time and financial security to do so.
Passion for your job can only take you so far though, so when your phone beeps late at night or you hear the ping of another email dropping into the inbox on the weekend, you start to wonder if it’s all worth it.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2022/09/21/why-the-right-to-disconnect-matters-to-workers/
If your boss calls or emails you outside work hours, do you reply? Too many of us do.
Australian Unions have recognised how the working from home requirement during the pandemic has exacerbated a problem across the workforce: the struggle to disconnect.
As it becomes increasingly difficult for workers to switch off, unions are pushing for the “right to disconnect” after work hours.
https://www.australianunions.org.au/2021/04/12/remember-when-knocking-off-work-meant-just-that/