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Technology an integral and often indispensable part of our lives. However, it can also an intrusive part, especially where the workplace is concerned. Many employers and bosses employees outside of working hours. This staff can never entirely off from work. The government in Portugal has steps to this incursion into the lives of workers. It has introduced a law that prohibits employers and bosses from workers by email, message or phone outside of working hours. The law to companies with more than 10 employees. It states that any violation constitutes a "serious offense" and could in financial penalties.

The Portuguese government has the new privacy law after a deluge of complaints during the coronavirus lockdowns. An increasing number of employees are now from home remotely because of COVID-19. The research company Gartner that remote workers will nearly to represent 32 per cent of the global workforce by the end of 2021, to 17 per cent in 2019. Portugal's government said: "The employer must the privacy of the worker." The new law also employers to provide employees with the appropriate tools to work from home, and them with any costs incurred to with increased energy bills.