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Scott Morrison has broken ranks with his colleagues in the Coalition, saying that he has been a pioneer in supporting the right to completely detach yourself from all responsibilities when you are not at work, and also when you are.
“Employees should have the right to ignore out-of-hours email or a once-in-a-generation wildfire emergency,” Morrison told the media today. “Nothing is so important that it can’t wait until Monday morning or until you’ve made the most of happy hour at the hotel bar in Honolulu”.
He rejected the ‘always on’ nature of modern work. “There is an expectation to be switched on between five and six hours a day, four days a week. But I’ve always found it unrealistic to maintain those kind of hours”.
The former Prime Minister said he always practiced switching off after a hard day at work. “When I was First Minister I would come home after a hard day at the office and then make it a rule not to do any work for the next three to four months.
“People aren’t going to die if you don’t get back to email straight away. I had an email from Pfizer sitting in my inbox for the best of 2020. I eventually got back to them and, apart from causing an unnecessary 4 month lockdown in Victoria and NSW, it didn’t really make any difference “.
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