The rapid digitalisation of contemporary workplaces has fundamentally altered the temporal structure of labour, often eroding the boundary between professional obligations and personal life. The growing expectation of constant digital availability has generated concerns regarding employee autonomy, privacy, and psychological well-being, particularly in sectors characterised by remote work and globalised communication networks. Within the Indian legal framework, however, labour regulation remains largely silent on the problem of after-hours digital engagement, creating a normative gap in the protection of workers’ temporal autonomy.

This article examines whether the emerging concept of the “Right to Disconnect” can be constitutionally grounded within the existing framework of the Indian Constitution. Rather than proposing an entirely new fundamental right, the study argues that the normative foundations for such protection already exist within the interpretive evolution of Articles 14, 19, and 21. Drawing upon the jurisprudence of dignity, privacy, and proportionality particularly following the landmark privacy judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India the article conceptualises digital disconnection as an aspect of temporal autonomy and informational self-determination.