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“Do you know what 24 hours without a smartphone looks like?” : how the French are trying to disconnect

2024-03-02T07:04:25.742Z

Highlights: “Do you know what 24 hours without a smartphone looks like?” : how the French are trying to disconnect. While Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to regulate the use of screens for children, adults are having a hard time setting an example. According to the latest Credoc digital barometer, in 2022, more than one in two people say they cannot spend more than a day without missing the internet, while less than a third in 2016. “I imposed disconnection weekends where team members had to send me a photo every hour to prove that they were not behind a computer”


INVESTIGATION - While Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to regulate the use of screens for children, adults are having a hard time setting an example.


“In case of emergency, send me a postcard”

, displays their site as an absence message.

For four months, we have tried everything: emails, calls on the landline, on the cell phone, voice messages, SMS... but the two founders of the company OOR (for Out Of Reach) really seem

" out of reach"

.

“After a stay Out Of Reach, nothing is the same as before

,” they promise.

Because we have (re)discovered life without a screen.

Do you know what 24 hours without a smartphone looks like?

Fewer and fewer French people know this, and that’s the problem.

According to the latest Credoc digital barometer, in 2022, more than one in two people say they cannot spend more than a day without missing the internet, while less than one in three in 2016. According to an Opinionway survey dating from July 2023, 47% of employees are even unable to disconnect during their vacation.

While Emmanuel Macron has announced his intention to regulate the use of screens for children, adults are having a hard time setting an example.

“Snombies” and “phubbers”

“I imposed disconnection weekends where team members had to send me a photo every hour to prove that they were not behind a computer.”

For this lunar declaration, the minister…

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Source: lefigaro

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