Prepare to book your one-way ticket to France.

France is banning employees from checking and answering work emails after 6 p.m. local time, as one of the most enchanting places to live becomes one of the most enchanting places to work. (This is the same country that created the 35-hour workweek in 1999, if you weren't jealous enough already.)

Employers' federations and unions signed a "new, legally binding" labor agreement on Thursday that will require all staff to turn their phones off after 6 p.m, the Guardian reported. Work email will completely shut down after-hours, so ideally, this would mean that employers wouldn't sending emails either.

No details have surfaced as to how France will enforce the new policy.

According to the deal, employees cannot tend to their work-related emails on their computers or smartphones after the 6 p.m. deadline. The onus lies on employers to ensure that their employees don't feel the need to work after hours (or pressure them to do so). The effect on the French offices of companies like Google and Facebook also remains to be seen.

France isn't the first country in Europe to enact such a ban. Germany implemented a similar deal whereby the country's employment ministry banned employers from contacting employees by phone or email after work hours, except under emergencies. The Ministry of Employment believed that managers should impose "minimal intervention" into their employees' free time, according to the Telegraph.

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