The word salience has appeared in 35 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 8 in “Australia Introduces Workers’ ‘Right to Disconnect’” by Natasha Frost and Isabella Kwai:
“The world is connected, but that has created a problem,” Tony Burke, the minister for employment and workplace relations, said in an interview with Australia’s public broadcaster on Tuesday.
“If you’re in a job where you’re only paid for the exact hours that you’re working, some people are now constantly in a situation of getting in trouble if they’re not checking their emails,” Mr. Burke added. It is reasonable for employers to contact their workers about shifts and other matters, he said, but workers should not be obligated to respond to these messages during their uncompensated hours.
Unions and other industrial groups have long argued that employees have the right to disconnect, but the issue gained salience during the pandemic, when a widespread shift to remote work led to the further blurring of boundaries between home life and work life.
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