This Working Life
This Working Life
ABC Australia
Are you learning how to switch off from work?
25 minutes Posted Sep 5, 2025 at 1:00 am.
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We've reached the one year anniversary of the right to disconnect regulations, which now also apply to small businesses. 
What are the challenges of managing this change to the ways we contact each other outside of work hours, and how is it impacting work life balance? 
Guests:  
Anna Volkova, People and Culture leader, Hi Bob 
Matthew Addison, Chair, Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) 
Lisa Heap, senior researcher and labour lawyer, Centre for Future Work, Australia Insitute 
And thanks to Jeromine Alpe from Corporate Diversity Pathways for sharing her tips for small businesses 
More information for small businesses navigating the right to disconnect can be found at www.smallbusinesspeak.org.au