I recently spoke to a CFO working in a business that had been acquired by a private equity (PE) company. He told me that the PE representative on the board had no life outside of work and he was getting calls and emails at all hours of the day and night, seven days a week, with the expectation of an immediate response. To compound this, he was asked twice to postpone his family holiday to address an issue he did not believe was time-sensitive. However, he refused both times. The Workplace Relations Commission’s (WRC) has been dealing with the issue…

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