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The issue of the grip of connection is recognized by French labor law. While work emails and calls increasingly pervade employees’ lives, the “right to disconnect” has been written into the French labor code since the publication of Law No. 2016-1088 of August 8, 2016. This new right, subject to negotiation, entered into force on January 1, 2017, under the labor law. We seek to go beyond what the texts say and their roots in a legal history of the strong carrying the weak. What interests us here are the informal aspects of efforts to help SMEs consider disconnection. This approach, which concerns the implementation of legal obligations within SMEs, gives us a pragmatic perspective that is both experiential and analytical with regard to the reality of companies and the right to disconnect.