SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The plight of female secretaries working for large corporations has come under the spotlight thanks to a study conducted by grad student Park Ji Yeon at Sookmyung Women’s University. Park crafted the study using in-depth interviews she carried out with 12 secretaries who had been on the job for [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A report released Monday by the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training has revealed that 29 percent of employees in South Korea have experienced sexual harassment at work in the past six months. According to the report, based on a survey of 3,000 employees from 15 industry [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s onerous corporate culture is slowly making progress. LG Uplus, one of the three major telecommunications companies in Korea, became the first IT company to implement a “PC-off” policy. As the name suggests, the policy forcibly shuts down all access to employee computers at 6:30 p.m. sharp, 30 minutes [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Survey data reveals that office workers are stressed because of English, even if they are not required to use the language frequently. Hunet, an education company, conducted a survey on 713 office workers. The results showed that 86.1 percent of the respondents were stressed because of English, with only [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – More than half of South Korean college students want to find overseas jobs, a survey showed Monday, reflecting their pessimism over the country’s ever-worsening job market and stressful life in Korea Inc. In a nationwide survey of 2,361 students from 132 universities, 59.3 percent responded they prefer overseas jobs over [...]
LEXINGTON, Mass., April 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey conducted by Ipswitch of more than 100 IT professionals highlighted the frustration felt with manual file transfer processes. Sixty one percent of respondents reported that manual file transfer was as enjoyable as sitting in traffic when asked to relate it to activities generally seen as [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) - Even in an uncertain economy, 40% of employed Americans say they want to leave corporate jobs, according to a new national study commissioned by CreativeLive, the world’s largest online education network. Further, 41 million1 employed Americans would be willing to take a pay cut for a job [...]