Work It Podcast: The right to disconnect from work for your mental health
Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours. Can Singapore follow suit?
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The executive director of the Singapore Human Resource Institute was Work It's very first guest.
Two years on, we check back with Alvin Goh and chat about the future of work, changing work norms, the rise of artificial intelligence and the right to disconnect from work as the focus on mental health comes to the fore in the workplace.
In certain functions ... the roles might stay, but the activities and tasks below those roles would be easily replaced by digitalisation or AI. This is the transition point that a lot of business leaders are thinking about.
It's important that employers must understand that when employees disconnect from the workplace, or (are not contactable) outside of office hours, that is perfectly alright because burnout is real, mental health is real.
Legislating grievance handling (is being discussed). (But) the burden of responsibility goes down to the line managers to try to resolve issues and that's a skill set line managers, especially young and newly promoted ones (must have).
Jump to these key moments:
- 1:23 The worry about losing jobs Â
- 7:35 How work norms are changing Â
- 10:11 The right to disconnect is key Â
- 11:24 Retaining talent is not about moneyÂ
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