Overview

• The typical employee now receives 117 emails and 153 Teams messages per day and is interrupted roughly every two minutes.
• 40% of workers check emails before 6 a.m. and 29% after 10 p.m., blurring boundaries between work and personal time.
• 65% of French staff report feeling dependent on screens, yet only 16% of companies enforce measures to limit digital access.
• Seventy-five percent of respondents report that digital overload has caused sleep disorders, concentration difficulties or stress.
• Support for an enforceable right to disconnect has risen to 67% of executives, an 11-point increase since 2016, but legal obligations remain largely unfulfilled.