Kris Bel, of Concord, checks his smartphone from Grizzly Peak Blvd. in Oakland, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. A 2024 bill could make California the first state to give workers the right to ignore calls, texts, emails, and other communications from work outside their normal work hours. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
“I would never want my boss to feel they couldn’t reach out to me because of legislation. That would be tough in Silicon Valley. Can you imagine?”
— Victoria Ortiz, 46, an accountant at a San Jose medical devices company, on a proposed law that would give workers a right not to be bothered by their bosses outside of regular work hours. Her boss texted her while she vacationed at Disneyland in France, but she didn’t mind the intrusion.
Originally published at Bay Area News Group