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

Richard 12 Silver badge

Exactly the point

Those with very little experience and a lot of student debt have very little choice.

Those with little to no savings - and perhaps a dependent family have no choice at all.

Those two cover the vast majority of the workforce.

There's only two ways to solve this:

1) Legislation to ban these practices, with genuine enforcement.

2) A universal basic income, so everyone can tell a bad employer to get stuffed without losing their home or being unable to eat.

The third option of ignoring the problem because "I'm alright Jack" is unethical and very foolish - it only takes a few months to burn all your savings and be forced to take minimum wage indentured servitude to keep body and soul together, as a great many people have found over the last year or so.

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