'If you switch off, people think you're lazy': demands grow for a right to disconnect from work

Working from home can mean never being able to switch off, but could EU-wide regulation end the always-on culture?

When Poland went into strict lockdown last March, Natalia Zurowska barely had time to clear her desk at work. I went in to get my laptop and then left," says the 36-year-old, an office manager for a graphic design firm in Warsaw at the time. I had been working in an office for 10 years. So it was a new thing, working from home. But from day one I knew I didn't like it."