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Johann Hari - Why You Can't Pay Attention

The Imperfects

CHAPTER

The Importance of Offense

In France in 2018, they had a really big crisis of what they called Le Burnout. 35% of French workers felt they could never stop checking their phone the whole time they were awake because their boss could email them or find them at any time of the day or night. And that's why I think we need to learn from somewhere that made a big change. The French government was hugely pressured by trade unions. They would never have done this without trade unions. So what the inquiry recommended and French unions fought for and achieved to the French government introduced it into law is a very simple reform called the right to disconnect.

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