{"id":516,"date":"2022-08-01T09:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/2022\/08\/01\/can-germans-right-to-switch-off-survive-the-digital-age\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T09:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T09:13:23","slug":"can-germans-right-to-switch-off-survive-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/2022\/08\/01\/can-germans-right-to-switch-off-survive-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Germans\u2019 right to switch off survive the digital age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>And that can be damaging to health. In the same BAUA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baua.de\/DE\/Angebote\/Publikationen\/Bericht-kompakt\/Verkuerzte-Ruhezeiten.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&amp;v=6\">study<\/a>, those regularly denied their 11-hour break reported more frequent episodes of insomnia, exhaustion and even back pain.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, if an employee can show that interruptions to their rest periods have made them ill, that\u2019s considered a crime on the part of the employer, says legal expert Markworth. That has led some big German firms to take drastic measures to ensure compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011, Volkswagen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeit.de\/karriere\/beruf\/2011-12\/volkswagen-blackberry-mailsperre\">announced<\/a> it would turn off its email server overnight to prevent the exchange of work emails out of hours. Others, including BMW and Bosch, have established guidelines for employees when it comes to contacting each other after hours.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this awareness some fear will be lost if the law is updated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorker protection is just as needed in our new world of digitalisation, home office and smart phones,\u201d says Markworth. \u201cThe question is how, in this changed world of work, we continue to protect employees, both from the encroachments of employers and from themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, with constant availability increasingly the norm for workers around the world, many will be keeping a close eye on German attempts to reclaim their free time in the digital age. Ghodsee, who received a nasty reverse culture shock upon returning to the US, is sure to be one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Feierabend<\/em> culture is really healthy,\u201d says the American academic. \u201cHow refreshing for it to be totally okay to leave work at five o\u2019clock and never exchange work emails on the weekend. That would be unconscionable in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/worklife\/article\/20200218-can-germans-right-to-switch-off-survive-the-digital-age\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that can be damaging to health. In the same BAUA study, those regularly denied their 11-hour break reported more frequent episodes of insomnia, exhaustion and even back pain. Currently, if an employee can show that interruptions to their rest periods have made them ill, that\u2019s considered a crime on the part of the employer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[250,207,247,249,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/worklife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}