SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Many office workers in South Korea prefer celebrating the new business year online, a study has revealed. South Korean job portal Incruit conducted a survey of 843 office workers, 77.9 percent of whom preferred holding a new business year celebration online. Only 22.1 percent wanted an offline celebration. Online [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Korean office workers are financially burdened by a surge in spending on year-end get-togethers and New Year’s. Saramin, an online job search portal, conducted a survey of 1,795 office workers, 68.2 percent of whom said they feel uncomfortable by the amount of money they spend on Christmas, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Ride-hailing services like South Korean mobility platform Tada are becoming increasingly popular among office workers, a recent study has revealed. Job portal Incruit conducted a survey of 4,326 adults, 41 percent of whom responded that they have the intention to use shared mobility platforms. In particular, 45 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that South Korean office workers judge a proper degree of friendship with their colleagues by how much they can discuss their work-related concerns. According to a survey of 849 office workers by JobKorea, a job search portal, 62.4 percent said they could be friends [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of workers in their 20s and 30s are stressed at office get-togethers, and do not enjoy drinking parties. According to a survey of about 800 office workers in their 20s and 30s conducted jointly by the job portal Incruit and part-time job search app Albacall, 70 percent [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that sitting for long periods of time may increase the chance of a resistance towards insulin, with those sitting 10 hours per day up to 1.6 times more likely than those sitting for less than 5 hours to develop insulin resistance. Once cells begin [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Civil servant is the most sought-after job among South Korean adults, though most of them aim to take jobs as office workers for practical reasons, a poll showed Friday. Of the 1,143 job seekers and salaried people questioned, the largest portion — 26.7 percent — said they want to [...]
SEOUL, Jul 2. (Korea Bizwire) — As the new mandatory 52-hour work week comes into effect today, one office of a Samsung affiliate had many empty seats at 9 a.m. as the rain continued to pour down in the morning after a wet weekend. At various Samsung subsidiaries, a newly implemented flexible hour system means [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been reported that three out of ten office workers don’t have the opportunity to exercise at their workplace. According to a survey conducted by employment portal Incruit and the Korea Research Institute for Health Promotion on 663 workers over the age of 20, 36 percent answered that they [...]