After Work Emails | Further Discussion from Class Presentation



We live in an automatic world. We are constantly connected and have the ability to obtain information in seconds with the touch of a screen or few buttons. With that, lead to constant communication. In the workforce with the integration of smartphones, employees are more susceptible to feeling as though the workday never ends due to their job coming home with them at night when they leave the office. This has lead to over-exhaustion, mental health issues, and truly the lack of a break.  In France and many companies including Volkswagen, have changed their company culture or created laws that make it illegal for employers to contact their employees after hours unless it is an emergency. In doing so, it has fostered further creativity and innovation for participants. Do you think that Canada should adopt this law? Why or why not?

 https://globalnews.ca/news/2725886/after-work-emails-banned-in-france-a-national-epidemic-in-canada/

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  1. Unknown2 April 2018 at 20:01

    I believe that if this is a problem that has been proven to be effecting not only workplace productivity and creativity, but workers' mental health, then action should be taken to protect workers from the practices that are affecting them negatively. It seems only logical, in order to protect workplace morale and for the benefit of wider society that these kinds of bans or some other form of protections should be put in place.

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  2. Xavier Prosper5 April 2018 at 15:23

    Despite this problem affecting workplace productivity, the change is most likely going to be very hard to implement. North american work culture is very competitive pushing employees stay at the office or to do work at home to get ahead. Even if after work emails are banned its likely that workers will still take work home with them causing stress.

    For true change to happen i think that there needs to be a culture change a the executive level. Here's an interesting article on how Pepsi's CEO is trying to tackle the stigma that workers need to stay late.

    http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/why-pepsico-ceo-asks-his-team-to-leave-loudly/news-story/5467b3ffff387c3a5dd79ac3a245c868

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