Work From Home Forces Countries To Bring In Right To Rest For Employees

Portugal is the latest in a list of European countries trying to ensure that work doesn’t spill into personal time by banning work emails and texts after office hours

- Sunayana Suresh

The work from home (WFH) culture has become a global staple over the past 18months, following the COVID pandemic. As a result, there has been a blurring of lines between work hours and personal time. There have been many debates on the need for regulation as WFH increasingly becomes the way forward.

Portugal recently passed a law, popularly dubbed Right to Rest, where bosses are banned from sending work emails and texts to employees after work hours.

AN ERA OF DIGITAL NOMADS

This law in Portugal is especially applicable to people working from home and to companies who have more than 10 members on their payroll. This also comes with countries like Portugal offering temporary digital nomad visas, which aims at attracting people to visit and stay there, given work today is done through tele-conferences.