[Gustomaximus]

Didn't they do this in Germany? Where emails couldn't send push notifications after hours. Anyone know how that worked?

In my experience it's fine to stop push notifications for email/chat messages after hours and "call me" if it's an emergency. I often get 'urgent' emails and chats that aren't really urgent, but people rarely want to call you unless it's something truely important. Nor should people send email for urgent generally, I think that's expect a reply within 24hrs channel type environment.

I feel for society we need stinger rules to balance work/life. A great one would be something like like for employees under $200k it's the employers responsibility to ensure they are working their 40hrs or pay overtime plus right to claim bad extra hours on leaving a job. Add to that some serious overtime rate minimums like 2x or 3x for weekend and out of hours.

Ultimately we should aim build a society for good living and a productive economy is part of that, but not more important.

[asyx]

I think Volkswagen introduced this a while ago but it's already rare in Germany to have access to emails outside of the company network.

You might find it in startups and technical staff that is on call but that's it. At least for the average worker.

But labor laws are pretty strong here. I don't think my boss would dare criticizing me for not responding on slack after a certain time.

[constantcrying]

Certainly it is neither legally mandated nor very common. As the other commenter pointed out Volkswagen does this.

But to be honest if I am not at work my work phone is off/silent and away from my reach anyway, so I don't know if such a rule really would have any impact on me. But this is also because of the surrounding labor laws, which e.g. has mandated and enforced maximum work hours per day, etc.