Ignoring your boss and finding work-life balance

Ignoring your boss and finding work-life balance
Workers in Australia now have the right to “ignore” their employer outside work hours. Will NZ follow suit? (Image: Getty)
Bronwyn Heenan
If, like me, you began work in or before the end of the last millennium, you will remember the days of faxes being exciting instant communication, receiving the post, and having a set number of days to respond. The cheque really was in the mail. Sending emails externally and accessing the internet were very much in their infancy at that time.In the past 25 years, technology has moved at pace to the extent most employees now have work phones or, at the very least, have access to text messages from their employer as well as emails on their d...

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