Tánaiste and Business Minister Leo Varadkar said employers should now draw up the appropriate working arrangements and policies, to ensure that employees will have more options to work outside of traditional hours, which many people have availed of during the pandemic. Jane Murphy from the Employment Bar Association says dividing obligations between employer and employee seems sensible, particularly at a time when many employees are working flexibly and remotely and often using a number of different devices to communicate “As a result, it is not as easy as it might have once been for an employer to monitor and manage working time and practices effectively. It, therefore, seems appropriate that obligations are placed on employees to protect their own right and the right of others to disconnect,” said Murphy.