How well would this go over in the United States? An employer and union agree not to allow employees to receive e-mails when they’re not working.
That’s what happened this week in Germany. Volkswagen and its labor union agreed that the company will deactivate staff members’ BlackBerry devices outside of work hours.
The agreement applies only to the company’s nonexecutive employees. They won’t be able to receive e-mails via BlackBerry except from a half hour before they start work until an hour after they finish.
Trying to get executive employees to agree to such a thing might be mission impossible in Germany or anywhere else.
