SEJONG, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More South Korean men are taking paternity leave nowadays, but their number still pales in comparison to that of women, data showed Friday. The data compiled by Statistics Korea showed that the number of male employees getting paternity leave came to 7,616 in 2016, up from 4,872 in 2015, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s retail giant Shinsegae said Friday it will reduce its employees’ working hours to 35 per week starting next year as part of its efforts to improve their work-life balance. It will mark the first case for a local conglomerate to adopt the 35-hour working week policy, when [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – One in five South Korean employees work 54 hours or longer a week with the downtrend in weekly work hours losing steam in the 2010s, government data showed Monday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, some 5.33 million employees had a workweek of 54 hours or more in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – If there’s one thing about Korean culture that foreigners may find interesting, it could be the country’s nightlife. Koreans not only work late hours, but are seemingly most active at nights, and there are few city neighborhoods without 24-hour franchise cafés or restaurants on standby for late-night customers. A [...]
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, Nov.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Research suggests that a decrease in working hours for Koreans, who currently work longer hours than almost anybody in the developed world, would lead to a drastic increase in the number of jobs created. At the Employment Impact Assessment Debate hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Research shows that those who are able to choose how much they work are healthier than those who work less or more than the number of hours they wish to work. On average, employees worked an average of an hour and half more than they wished. The gap between [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — An OECD report shows that the working hours of Korean employees is second-longest in last year among those of OECD member countries. The working hours for Koreans were 1.3 times longer than that of the OECD average, and 1.6 times longer than that of the Netherlands, where the employees worked for [...]
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[Related Article] Big Change ahead for S. Korea’s Labor Standards (Korea Bizwire, April 10) The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme.The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 [...]
SEOUL, April 10, 2014 (Korea bizwire) – The discussion in the National Assembly surrounding cutting back on work hours is gradually converging on the introduction of a 52-hour workweek scheme. The subcommittee for labor-management-government negotiation for social issues under the National Assembly’s Environmental and Labor Committee held on April 7 a third meeting to narrow [...]