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The Right to Not Check Your Phone
The French government introduced a new law which gives every worker a right. It's called the right to disconnect. 35% of french workers felt they could never stop checking their phone, because their boss could message them at any time of the day or night and if they didn't answer, they'd be in trouble. We've gone from its being basic, no one to almost half the economy being on call all the time. I remember when we were kids, ella, the only people who were on call were the prime minister and doctors. And even doctors weren't oncall all the time, right? So what i argue in the book, just like we needed and need a feminist movement