Prawo do bycia offline odpowiedzią na upowszechnienie narzędzi cyfrowych w zatrudnieniu

The use of digital tools has significantly contributed to a permanent change in how the work is being provided. Despite many advantages of this situation, attention is also drawn to the significant risks that the widespread use of modern communication tools in employment relationships entails, including the blurring of the boundary between private and professional life, less predictable working hours and employees' inability to benefit from rest periods. As a response to these challenges, it is proposed to distinguish the so-called right to disconnect - the possibility for employees to disconnect from digital tools used for professional purposes outside working hours without facing negative consequences. The article discusses the following issues: under what factual conditions the right to disconnect has developed, what is the essence of this right, how it has been regulated in selected legal orders, as well as what shape the right to disconnect could take in Polish labor law.