SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — While numerous global companies that adopted telecommuting over the last three years are gradually summoning employees back to a traditional office setting, South Korean enterprises are likewise scaling back their telecommuting initiatives, attributing the change to communication challenges. This situation has triggered varied responses among employees. Some assert that [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, the work-from-home trend will likely continue to increase, resulting in stronger incentives for people to move to suburban areas where housing is relatively cheap, the central bank said Sunday. Koreans’ perceptions about working from home greatly improved after the coronavirus crisis compelled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus continues to spread, consumers are decorating their homes into offices as more businesses are encouraging employees to work from home. Online shopping giant 11st reported a 2,183 percent increase in floor table sales between Aug. 17-26. Sales of desk blinds and other cubicle products surged by [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Telecommuting has been rapidly spreading among South Korea’s small and midsized companies, as well as among their larger counterparts, as part of their efforts to combat the coronavirus outbreak, the Ministry of Employment and Labor said Friday. The ministry said a total of 2,602 small businesses had applied for [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With the novel coronavirus pandemic prompting alarming headlines on a daily basis, the majority of employees at multinational companies in South Korea are working from home in various ways. Mercer Korea, a human resources consulting firm, conducted a survey on 265 multinational companies in the country and found that [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are adopting remote working systems to help insulate their employees from the new coronavirus outbreak and contain its spread. Employees at companies that carry out telecommuting are welcoming the remote work in terms of reduced infection anxiety and childcare burden, but employees in jobs that cannot [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus spiraling out of control in South Korea, companies and public organizations are taking measures to encourage telecommuting. Korean branches of global IT companies such as Intel Corp. and Dell Inc. have made telecommuting virtually mandatory for all employees this week. Microsoft Corp. [...]