More than a third (36 per cent) of business owners would vote against the introduction of a ‘right to disconnect’ law, a study has found.
However, the research by iCompario, which surveyed 2,000 employees, revealed that two-thirds (66 per cent) of employees would welcome the UK following in the footsteps of France and introducing such a law.
It also found that more women than men supported the introduction of the law (70 per cent compared to 62 per cent), and that those most in support of the law were in executive-level roles (72 per cent).
Why disconnection in remote work comes from unclear organisational values, not physical detachment
According to the research, which also used ONS labour market data to extrapolate the survey’s findings across the entire workforce, 3.5 million employees said they felt ‘very pressured’ to check emails outside of their contracted working hours, and 6.5 million felt ‘some pressure’ to do so.
A further 1.8 million employees said they put pressure on themselves to do this, rather than their employer applying the pressure. Only a third (33 per cent) of those surveyed said they did not feel any pressure to check emails outside of work.
On average, the survey found that employees took 5.7 days to ‘disconnect’ when out of office, and with average holidays lasting 8.7 days, this meant employees spent only three days disconnected from work. More than one in 10 (14 per cent) said they can never switch off while on holiday.
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