SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of Korean employees work overtime on weekday nights or weekends but, among them, more than half do so without pay, a survey showed Sunday. Civic group Gapjil 119 and the Finance & Service Ubuntu Fund jointly conducted a survey of 1,000 employees. In response to a question [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co.’s attempt to recover output on the back of some easing of chip supply concerns is going nowhere due to a strike at supplier Hankook Tire & Technology Co. and opposition from its own union. The carmaker applied for the approval of special overtime work to the [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The so-called “MZ generation,” which encompasses millennials and Generation Z, or those who were born in the 1980s and early 2000s, are most reluctant to join companies requiring employees to work overtime at night or on the weekend. According to an online survey of 2,708 men and women aged [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With the official shortened work week entering effect yesterday, those in the IT industry are struggling to keep up with the changes that came with the new policy. On the intranet of the nation’s largest portal website, Naver, a new button that allows employees to clock in and out [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) – As smartphones and tablet PCs have become readily available, the average working person spends an extra 1.44 hours per day or 11.3 hours per week using these devices for work related purposes. Since using smartphones or tablets to do work after working hours can be considered as overtime, many people [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A study shows that Korean workers had overtime work 3.1 days a week and were paid 3,240 won per hour for their extra work on average. A survey conducted by Career, Korea’s job portal, on 824 office workers, found that seven out of ten of them were not compensated [...]