France's After Work Email Ban Is 1 Step Closer To Reality (huffingtonpost.ca)

Jesse Ferreras, writing for Huffington Post: France is that much closer to becoming the first country to ban after-work emails. The country's lower parliamentary house passed a bill this week that would ban companies with 50 or more employees from sending emails outside regular work hours, BBC News reported. It now goes to the Senate, where members will study it before sending it back to the National Assembly to enshrine it in French law. The bill would make businesses come up with hours during which employees cannot check or send emails. And it comes as workers are finding it increasingly difficult to detach themselves from work, Socialist MP Benoit Hamon told BBC News.Hamon adds: "Employees physically leave the office, but they do not leave their work. They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash -- like a dog. The texts, the messages, the emails -- they colonize the life of the individual to the point where he or she eventually breaks down."

Comments

Also to ban:

[Anonymous Coward]

pagers
phone calls
snail-mail
boss following you to a restaurant to "just so happen" to get the table next to you
mandatory office holiday parties
"optional" (really mandatory) office parties of any kind

and more, I know this list is lacking.

Why not stop checking?

[houstonbofh]

You can just not check your e-mail all the time after hours... Even turn off the mail app on your phone. (Some phones you can schedule this!) But, no... We must protect people too stupid to stop working when they are home...