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As boundaries between work and home vanish, employees need a 'right to disconnect'

  • Written by Barbara Pocock, Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
As boundaries between work and home vanish, employees need a 'right to disconnect'Mick Tsikas/AAP

If you have been in a children’s playground recently, you may have seen a distracted parent absorbed in an intense phone conversation, swatting a child away.

Sure, some are ordering tickets for The Wiggles, but most are not — they are working. They might have officially knocked off, be on leave or it might be a weekend....

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