SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul has the best work-life balance among metropolitan cities and provinces in South Korea, a survey showed Thursday. The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Thursday unveiled the 2020 work-life balance index for the nation’s 17 metropolitan cities and provinces based on the results of a recent survey. The [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans are more worried about the country’s lack of jobs than young people in any other country, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korean National Commission for UNESCO conducted a survey of 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 34, 34 percent of whom picked ‘lack of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 workers believe that workplace bullying is still serious, even though an anti-workplace harassment law has been in place for more than two years, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted on 1,000 office workers, 28.9 percent of respondents said they experienced workplace harassment [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans chose China as the biggest security threat to their country among the neighbors, excluding North Korea, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey by the state-run Korea Institute of National Unification (KINU) on 1,006 adults, 71.8 percent of the respondents picked China [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — About 78 percent of salaried workers support the 52-hour workweek that was introduced in 2018 to reduce long working hours, a labor ministry survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,300 people, 71 percent said the reduction of the maximum weekly working hours to 52 from 68 was [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today released results from a survey of portfolio managers across the U.S., revealing the top challenges they face in operating a scalable and efficient data infrastructure. Only 46% of respondents report being very or completely satisfied with their organization’s data infrastructure, and only 2% [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In 2021 Institutional Investor’s Global Fixed-Income Research survey, 6,025 bond and credit specialists from 1,622 asset managers provided their feedback to determine the top fixed-income research providers for developed and emerging markets across North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Emerging EMEA. Voters cast over 126,000 firm and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreign investment companies registered in South Korea feel most uncomfortable about the government’s introduction of the new workplace disaster law and raising the minimum wage, a survey showed Thursday. The Korea Enterprises Federation, a major business lobby group, conducted a survey of 220 foreign investment companies with more than [...]
BURNABY, British Columbia, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, and the only company developing both annealing and gate-model quantum computers commissioned Hyperion Research, the high performance computing analyst group, to explore enterprise attitude and appetite with regard to quantum computing. The survey garnered over 400 responses [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 8 in 10 South Koreans engaged in online consumption following the coronavirus outbreak, a consumer watchdog said Tuesday. The Korea Consumer Agency conducted a survey of 10,000 South Korean men and women over 20 years of age, 82.1 percent of whom (8,207 respondents) had engaged in online [...]