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Legal-normative analysis of the impact of digital disconnection in the personal sphere of the worker. The technological transformations that the current labor market is experiencing are causing important changes in the framework of labor relations and business management; undoubtedly, a challenge for the agents involved in the work (workers, employers, governments, unions and business associations) to strengthen the protective spirit of labor regulations. In this sense, the group analyzes the exercise of the right to digital disconnection of the worker, as well as its eventual impact on business management and competitiveness. All this, always pointing out that it is a labor law that ultimately, its effectiveness comes from both a mechanism to enhance the freedom and self-determination of the worker's plan, as well as a guarantee of effective, free and equal business competition in the framework of a social market economy. In this context, the research group clarifies a basic and fundamental labor law at present but with many edges that have to be polished. For this, in line with its multidisciplinary nature, it deals with its exercise, its legal-practical implications in labor relations (with special emphasis on teleworking), its current state in the world (with international law studies in other countries), its relationship with the prevention of occupational risks (computer fatigue and hyperconnectivity), as well as with the gender perspective, diversity, intimacy and privacy, the reconciliation of work and family life, video surveillance and business control and, the technological aspect of the same, among other aspects: the BYOD study ("bring your own device"), internal protocols in the use of digital devices and software for organizing work time available to private and public companies.