Reply to post: Re: This is unnecessary

This always-on culture we're in is awful. How do we stop it? Oh, sorry, hold on – just had another notification

Dan 55 Silver badge

Re: This is unnecessary

If it's a PITA, they're doing it wrong.

French law allows the employees' available periods to be defined, and if the employee is working, say, 8 hours a day with flexible start and end periods then their email/IM availability could also be defined as those same hours.

So if you're a night owl and work late for 2-3 hours in the day and everyone knows it and is happy with it, you wouldn't be expected to reply when you're not working but other people are.

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