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Right to Disconnect – Weighing Up the Impact

The Right to Disconnect is becoming an essential workplace topic across Australia. With new laws and workplace agreements focusing on employees’ ability to switch off outside of work hours, organisations need to find the balance between respecting personal wellbeing and ensuring operational continuity.

This Right to Disconnect Training Course helps managers and staff understand their responsibilities, build healthier boundaries, and design systems that protect both productivity and employee wellbeing. Participants will explore how to manage availability expectations, knowledge continuity, and delegation practices so that no critical tasks are lost when staff disconnect.

Why This Course Matters

Australia’s Fair Work reforms have placed a spotlight on psychosocial hazards and workplace wellbeing. Poorly managed communication and after-hours expectations can lead to burnout, stress, and compliance risks. This training provides practical strategies to support both individuals and organisations, ensuring employees can rest without compromising business needs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Why is the Right to Disconnect important in Australia?
The Right to Disconnect is increasingly recognised in workplace agreements and legislation. It helps reduce stress, burnout, and psychosocial hazards, while improving engagement and retention.

Q. Who should attend this training?
This course is suitable for managers, HR professionals, and staff who want to establish healthy workplace boundaries and improve workplace communication.

Q. How does this course support workplace wellbeing?
By teaching tools that balance personal wellbeing with organisational needs, participants learn how to reduce stress risks while maintaining productivity.

Q. Can this course be tailored for our organisation?
Yes. Preferred Training Networks customises all courses, and this program can be adapted for specific industries, including corporate offices, government agencies, and frontline teams.

Q. Is this course delivered across Australia?
Yes. We deliver in-house training Australia-wide, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and regional areas. Virtual options are also available.

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Key Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the Right to Disconnect and discuss its legal and organisational context.
  • Recognise the wellbeing and productivity benefits of healthy boundaries.
  • Identify the risks of lost knowledge when individuals disconnect.
  • Apply knowledge management strategies to ensure continuity of work.
  • Use effective delegation skills to share responsibility, capability and maintain progress.
  • Communicate availability expectations clearly within teams.
  • Balance personal wellbeing with organisational needs through practical tools.
  • Sequence events in an emergency situation
  • Develop a personal and team plan that supports both disconnecting and knowledge continuity.

Course Description

The Right to Disconnect training course explores how employees and organisations can balance wellbeing with operational needs. While switching off outside of work hours is terrific for health and productivity, it also raises questions about continuity of knowledge and task management. This course shows how leaders and staff can find a win–win solution. This means protecting personal time while building stronger systems for knowledge management, communication, and delegation. Participants will leave with practical tools to support both individual balance and organisational resilience. This course was prompted by a CEO getting very frustrated when an alarm went off in the factory. It was a long night, and they couldn’t contact the person with the code. Why not have a better system in place?

Where And When?:

Target Audience:
Managers and Staff

Duration:
This course is available as a 1-day course or a truncated half-day course.

Delivery:
This course can be delivered both in-person or virtually. For virtual delivery, we can use our virtual platforms or your organisations.Group Size:
We recommend a group size of 4-10 people.

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The course was very informative and it presented exceptionally well!
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Really found inspiration and hope in what Michelle provided
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Amazing course! Engaging, fun and learnt so much. Thank you always.
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Tom was a fabulous trainer very knowledgeable and able to provide practical real life examples and tools that will prove extremely useful.
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Best every course
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Dr Marny Lishman crated an amazing space that not only was open, safe and caring, but gave insight into many different aspects of resilience. She apprieciated different perspectives and opened discussions that were supported and wise. The presentation was targeted and had the perfect balance of knowledge and reflection. I would encourage this workshop for any team, especially those preparing of have gone through organisational change!
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Did this course in a session at Professional Services Review Training .Very helpful especially in my work in Public Health .Lots of useful ‘tips and tricks ‘
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