'To Bless All Mankind' April 24, 2017 Issue

For young or old, the 21st-century workplace is a challenge

The <i>Monitor’s</i> Editorial Board

Originally published in The Christian Science Monitor, January 2, 2017.

A new French law that took effect January 1 asks employers to protect their workers from having to respond to work-related texts or emails after office hours.

But the well-intentioned legislation may end up being no more effective than was the decree of medieval King Canute as he watched the ocean’s tides disobey his command to cease their advance.

Technological changes have made a world of work chopped neatly into eight-hour-a-day units rarer and rarer.

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