With the average South Korean clocking in almost 53 hours per week, lawmakers in the country are taking measures to change their « culture of working overtime. »
Earlier this month, parliament passed a bill reducing the cap on workweek hours to 52, down from 68. The government in Seoul, the nation
With the average South Korean clocking in almost 53 hours per week, lawmakers in the country are taking measures to change their “culture of working overtime.”
Earlier this month, parliament passed a bill reducing the cap on workweek hours to 52, down from 68. The government in Seoul, the nation’s capital, has even announced that it will soon begin to shut down the computers of civil servants at 8pm on Fridays, forcing them to go home.
The measure will be introduced in phases over the next few months, eventually resulting in a stop-time of 7pm on the last day of the workweek.
But the idea is not being embraced by South Korean workers, with 67.1% of government employees asking to be exempt from the new rules.
