France didn't ban people from checking work e-mail after 6. This is why it should have.

Much to the Internet's disappointment, France did not in fact make it illegal to send work e-mails after 6 -- despite many reports au contraire . Perhaps the online frenzy around the news, however, and our widespread willingness to believe it, suggests a more important truth about e-mail, connectedness and productivity: France didn't ban off-hours e-mails but it should.