SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has launched a drive to promote working from home among local businesses as part of preparations for another virus wave. The Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasure Headquarters on Wednesday held a meeting with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and was briefed about the latter’s plan to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 91 percent of South Korean workers who are working from home amid new coronavirus concerns said they are satisfied with the alternative, a government poll showed Thursday. The survey of 878 workers showed that 60.5 percent were mostly satisfied with working from home, while 30.8 percent said they [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial watchdog said Thursday that it will allow employees of financial companies to remotely access internal networks, paving the way for a work-at-home system amid the coronavirus pandemic. The move came seven months after the Financial Supervisory Services (FSS) granted remote access to networks by essential financial [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will adopt a remote working system for some of its employees in South Korea following a resurgence of coronavirus cases in the country. Employees who apply for Samsung’s remote working program will be able to work from home starting next month. The company [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of South Korean tech companies began to allow their employees to work from home again as a precautionary measure amid the resurgence of novel coronavirus infections, industry officials said Tuesday. On Sunday, the government raised social distancing in Seoul and its neighboring areas by one notch [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. is considering expanding its remote working system for employees here, industry insiders said Tuesday, due to the prolonged coronavirus pandemic. The South Korean tech giant recently surveyed its workers at its consumer electronics (CE) business division in Suwon, south of Seoul, on work-from-home solutions, according to [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — POSCO, South Korea’s top steelmaker, has introduced a new remote working program that is committed to equal opportunity in promotions and wages between employees who work at home while taking care of children and those who work at the office. The company announced on Wednesday that it was launching [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean firms are again beefing up their virus prevention measures after the country reported cluster infections linked to clubs and bars in a popular nightlife neighborhood in Seoul, industry insiders said Thursday. After the country shifted to an “everyday life quarantine” scheme to normalize social and economic activities [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Motors Corp. said Monday they have asked employees to resume work at their workplaces to better cope with the growing impact of the spreading coronavirus outbreak on their businesses. The carmakers’ employees have been ordered to work from home to prevent the spread [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that proportion of employees permitted to work from home and the manner in which these policies are managed differs significantly among South Korean companies. Incruit, an online job search portal, conducted a survey of 891 office workers, 29.8 percent of whom said they are [...]