STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL: the right to disconnect from work
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In this episode
How can we properly switch off from work in an era of phones, email and remote working? We’re exploring the ‘right to disconnect’ — the idea that people should have a right to disengage from messages and calls outside of their working hours. Professor Anna Cox explains the importance of work-life boundaries. Andrew Pakes from the Prospect Union tells us what a right to disconnect could look like. And Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland talks us through what we can learn from France.
Plus writer and youth worker Ciaran Thapar on his new book, Cut Short: Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City.
Guests
Anna Cox (@AnnaCox_), professor of human-computer interaction at University College London
Andrew Pakes (@andrew4mk), director of communications and research at Prospect Union
Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland, professor at Sciences Po and CEO of So Comment
Ciaran Thapar (@ciaranthapar), youth worker and author of Cut Short: Youth Violence, Loss and Hope in the City
More info
Work-life balance
Anna Cox: A definition of work-life balance for policy makers
Anna Cox et al: Developing strategies for remote working during Covid (2020)
UCL: How to foster healthy home working (Apr 2020)
Right to disconnect
Prospect Union: Right to Disconnect – A guide for union activists (May 2021)
Prospect Union: Hybrid working and the Right to Disconnect (Apr 2021)
BBC: Can the 'right to disconnect' exist in a remote-work world? (May 2021)
Will Stronge: Let’s call time on unpaid labour with a right to disconnect (Feb 2021)
France’s right to disconnect
BBC: French workers get a right to disconnect (Dec 2016)
Caroline Sauvajol-Rialland: Information overload kills communication (Jun 2016)
Cut Short
Guardian: Cut Short by Ciaran Thapar review (Jun 2021)
FT: Cut Short by Ciaran Thapar review (Jul 2021)
