Majority of UK Adults Support Legal Right to Disconnect
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Majority of UK adults support legal right to disconnect:
Six in 10 UK adults are in favour of establishing a legal "right to disconnect", which would allow employees to ignore work-related communications such as emails and texts outside their contracted working hours, new research from Ipsos shows.
According to the research, 67% of UK workers said they participate in work-related communications outside their official working hours, with about four in 10 either checking or replying to these communications, and one-third saying they proactively send them.
Ipsos found that although only three in 10 do not communicate with work outside their official working hours, more than half of UK adults (55%) said it is unacceptable for employers to expect staff to even check for work-related communications after hours.
In terms of support for a statutory right to disconnect, 60% said they were in favour of the government introducing it in new legislation, with 34% strongly in support. Only one in 10 were against such a measure.
The research also found that opinion was split over whether to prioritise flexibility or a right to disconnect, with roughly one-third preferring the latter, a quarter preferring the former, and 40% saying both are equally important.
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