MASSIVE RANT: It's Now Illegal For Bosses to Text Workers After Hours [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

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Rob Moore

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🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We have had the biggest world-wide event since the second world war, the impact is widespread and devastating to the economy. Yet, Portugal have now made it illegal for bosses to text or contact workers outside of work hours. Listen in to why Rob believes this is a massive mistake. KEY TAKEAWAYS In Portugal, if bosses contact their employees outside of office hours then they can be fined. Rob is worried about this coming to the UK, how would it work for emergencies and flexible working. Also, surely now is the time we need to be more productive, not less so, after the impact of the pandemic. We have to innovate and be creative to solve problems, not create more barriers. Digital nomad is now a term in the dictionary. They work anytime, anywhere. How would this work if we are restricted to working hours? People don’t have to reply to messages or answer their phone. It should be everyone’s right to message someone they have an agreement with (e.g someone you work with or a friend) and it is the other person’s right to not respond. It doesn’t have to be made illegal. BEST MOMENTS “Do not bring it to the UK, we need to work ourselves back into a good economic situation again” “I don’t work office hours anyway and digital nomads don’t work office hours either" "We have to creatively problem solve, not put up more barriers" [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0	I may have just witnessed the dumbest post-pandemic law I have ever seen pass.
0:09.0	Now, let me know what you think about this, bearing in mind we've had probably the biggest
0:14.8	worldwide event since the Second World War, COVID, pandemic lockdowns, massive mental
0:24.8	health issues, physical health issues, massive lack of flow of money in the economy, the taxes,
0:33.2	the expenses, the debt, and get this, right? Get this. Insider has just reported that it
0:41.6	is now illegal for bosses to text their workers outside of office hours, thankfully at the moment
0:51.7	just in Portugal, no bear with me. Let me say this again. It has now been made illegal for bosses
1:00.6	to text or contact workers outside of office hours in Portugal. If you message or email your workers
1:11.3	at 5.31pm, you will be fine. You will be fine. Now, I think this is fucking ridiculous. I would love
1:22.5	your thoughts. Please enlighten me. Now, I'm going to tell you what they say is behind this change in
1:28.9	law. My big freaking worry is it comes to the UK. Do not bring it to the UK. We need to work
1:36.3	ourselves back into a good economic situation again. People don't need to be less contactable. They
1:43.3	need to be more accountable. All right, so listen up and by the way, stay with me and also
1:51.4	share in the comments what you think. So it will now be illegal for bosses to text or contact
1:56.5	workers after hours in Portugal. You will be fine. In fact, that law is now passed. Is that the
2:02.0	dumbest law you have ever seen passed since the lockdown. I haven't seen a dumber one. Now,
2:07.7	apparently, the socialist party in Portugal wanted to make it a law that you'd be able to turn
2:16.9	your phones off completely. 5.31, turn your phone off. Don't have to turn it on again at 9pm. What about
2:22.5	if there's an accident? What about if there's emergency? What about if there's a massive server
2:26.1	outage in the company? Oh, no, wait a minute. We're not allowed to contact. What about if there's a
2:30.5	security breach? What about if there's a COVID out there? I don't know. It's illegal to contact
2:35.9	anyone. Fucking hell. No. Next, do you know what's coming next? Oh, you looked at someone in the
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