The right to disconnect in digital economics

DOI

10.2991/iscde-19.2019.157How to use a DOI?

Keywords

the law, the right to disconnect, remote employment, balance between work and personal life, digital economics

Abstract

Development of digital technologies leads to the fact that employees take care of constant communication resulting in accumulated fatigue, efficiency loss. Digitalization requires updating the current rules regulating the working time and the right to rest. The paper gives the content analysis of "the right to disconnect" of an employee who uses Internet and other communications means. "The right to disconnect" was captured in legislation of France, Italy and a number of other countries. This right is necessary for maintaining balance between work and personal life. "The right to disconnect" has particular significance for women who combine their work commitments and childrearing. Based on statistical and research data on special aspects of the time use of remote employees, the author draws conclusion of the necessity of capturing "the right to disconnect" in Russian labor legislation.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - M.V. Chudinovskikh
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - The right to disconnect in digital economics
BT  - Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 516
EP  - 519
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/iscde-19.2019.157
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