Norway – Research and development services and related consultancy services – Employees' right to disconnect

The Ministry of Labour and Inclusion is hereby highlighting an assignment to examine different problems connected to workers' right to disconnect. The right to disconnect refers to a worker's right to be able to free himself from the work and refrain from participating in work-related electronic communication, such as e-mails or other messages, outside working hours. The project shall map the extent of employees' contact with and connection to work outside ordinary working hours. This shall be examined in what ways the contact occurs. It shall be mapped to what degree employees find that they have the right to and can disconnect from outside ordinary working hours and what expectations they experience in responding to enquiries and contact outside working hours. The assignment will be valid from signing the contract in 2024 until the delivery of the final report on 1 September 2025, and has an upper economic limit of NOK 1.8 million excluding VAT. See annex 1 of the contract for further details on the delivery.