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The right to disconnect is sometimes treated as a question of notification settings: silence the phone, delay the email and trust that everyone will become more relaxed at precisely 5.01 pm. The Australian right gives employees a legal basis to refuse unreasonable work-related contact outside their working hours. The more useful organisational question is why so much work still needs to arrive after those hours in the first place. A policy can clarify the boundary, but it can