Checking your work email on a weekend or a holiday? As part of planned labor reforms, new legislation in France would encourage companies to create policies to help their employees disconnect from the office. Buried inside a hotly contested <http://www.wsj.com/articles/imf-urges-further-labor-reform-to-stimulate-french-economy-1464097624> French labor reform bill is an amendment suggesting that companies <http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-french-counterstrike-against-work-e-mail> of 50 or more employees draft formal policies to limit the spillover of work, specifically as it’s related to “digital technology,” into the private lives of employees. This, according to the BBC <http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36249647>, would involve establishing a policy that specifies hours when employees aren’t supposed to send or receive email http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/work-emails-france-labor-law_us_57455130e4b03... -- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh