The majority of Brits support the creation of a ‘right to disconnect’ law that would put limits on workplace communication outside office hours, a poll reveals.
A survey of 1,050 UK adults, conducted by Ipsos, found that six in 10 (60 per cent) would support the introduction of a law giving employees the right to ignore work-related communication outside working hours.
More than half (55 per cent) also said it was unacceptable for employers to expect their employees to check for work-related communications out of hours, while a similar proportion said the same about being expected to send (57 per cent) or respond to (58 per cent) out-of-hours communications.
The survey found that more than two-thirds (67 per cent) of respondents said they currently read or respond to work-related communications outside of working hours.
This included two in five (43 per cent) who checked work-related communications and 40 per cent who replied to them out of hours. A third (34 per cent) of respondents said they proactively sent work-related communications out of hours.
Just 30 per cent of respondents said they did not communicate with work outside of their official working hours.
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