re: Weekend work emails now illegal in France.

What I've experienced with after hours emails and calls is the lack of allowing subordinates to make decisions. 90% of the time I'm called or emailed it's something that a subordinate was not allowed to decide or didn't feel comfortable and not by myself. Sometimes that's a lack of a company paying to have someone to make the decisions on the weekends and after hours, but more often than not its micromanagement and lack of trust.

I also think there's something to be said in pushing hard to work 35 hours a week and get all the work done that takes someone always in the office 50 hours in the states. Cut down on the water cooler talk and unnecessary meetings to plan meetings.