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Reasons Revisited

199. STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL: the right to disconnect from work

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hello! 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’.



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0:00.0

This Christmas, discover the Whitney Houston story you never knew.

0:04.4

Wait, how about it? It's all in the same name.

0:07.2

From the right of Bohemian rap city.

0:09.0

This is what they want.

0:10.0

America's sweetheart.

0:11.0

You won't give it to them.

0:12.0

She has to watch me.

0:14.0

I want to dance with somebody only in cinemas now.

0:30.0

This is Raisins to Be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Light.

0:34.0

Hello.

0:35.0

Jeff's off this week, so it's me on my own at the controls.

0:41.0

Be afraid, be very afraid.

0:43.0

We thought Joel and I of recording this introduction after the England game

0:51.0

or doing what Jeff and I normally do, which is pretending that we recorded it after the England game.

0:56.0

But we decided to do neither of those things, because I don't think you really want my hot take on the result.

1:01.0

You know the result.

1:02.0

I don't.

1:03.0

We're talking about a really interesting subject this week, which is the right to disconnect,

1:10.0

which is the idea that people should have a right to disengage from working emails, messages and calls outside of their working hours.

1:19.0

And there's an obvious context to this, which is that as we've talked about on the podcast before the rise of remote working over the last year and a half,

1:27.0

is I think going to have a longstanding impact on the world of work.

1:30.0

There's this idea of hybrid working.

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