Survey Shows Koreans Want to Work Less as Government Examines If They Should Work More
This should come as no surprise that Koreans want to work less hours, who wouldn’t want less hours if it meant the same pay? I would like to read what the results of this survey would be if the employees were told they would make less money if working the lesser hours. I think the results would be very different:
While the government has been pushing to extend a mandatory 52-hour cap on the country’s 40-hour basic workweek, a recent survey showed that people actually wish to work less than 40 hours per week.
Korea Times
The Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) unveiled the results of its survey on work-life balance, Sunday, after interviewing 22,000 people aged between 19 and 59 from Sept. 20 to Oct. 7 last year.
The results showed that people wished to work 36.7 hours a week on average: regular employees wished to work 37.63 hours a week, while temporary and daily employed workers wished to work 32.36 hours a week.
This survey was done in response to the government’s proposal to add flexibility to the current 52 hour work week cap:
Billing the plan as offering flexibility beyond the mandatory 52-hour cap on the workweek, introduced by the previous Moon Jae-in administration, the ministry said it is seeking to extend the maximum weekly work hours to 69 during times of heavy workload.
The ministry noted that workers will be granted longer vacations in return for overtime worked. But many labor and civic groups have raised doubts about this.
To me this seems like big business trying to get government to help them avoid paying overtime wages during periods of heavy workload. The companies are offering extra vacation days in exchange that the article explains many Korean workers are not allowed to take the vacation days they already have off.
It would be funny to see South Koreans become more like the French.
“SURVEY SHOWS KOREANS WANT TO WORK LESS”
In other news, survey shows Koreans want to have their genitals crushed between two rocks less.
Now that we have catered to the wishful thinking of those with sloth, and pollsters who should be able to look at themselves in the mirror, let’s look at the real deal.
It is none of the government’s business if someone is working voluntarily. And there are already laws for forced labor, so nobody is being protected.
I seldom work less than 64-68 hours per week. I work for 18-22 hours in a row sometimes. Why? Because I like my job¹. I am doing interesting work that has clear accomplishment. And there is always an emergency… if I solve it, I am a hero… and if I don’t, well, I manage the outcome and everyone is grateful anyway.
Compared to the workload, I don’t even get paid that much. But I will do something I love for half price and won’t do something I hate for double pay.
Such is the freedom of owning everything I need and having no bills.
Just like banning me from going to resturaunts if I am unvaccinated, forbidding me to work is government overreach.
Sometime, people ask if I want a day off.
No. I want work off.
Just because I laze around in bed gawking at ladyboy pr0n for a day doesn’t mean the work goes away.
¹Loving my job might change. I manage people and situations… preferably unexpected ones. They have it in their mind that I would be great at managing the paperwork for managing people and situations… from procedure to training.
They are wrong. Zero interest. I understand they need this. I understand they can’t get someone else. But no.
And I can’t be bribed or threatened.
Nothing stays the same. The successful evolve or move on.
“It would be funny to see South Koreans become more like the French.”
Ha! Can you imagine Koreans sitting around eating baguettes, drinking coffee, and making terrible beer?
HAHAHAHAHAhaha haha ha… ha… h… m
I vary between thinking South Korea is the France of Asia and thinking they’re just whiny ghits. I know they’re neither; but we all have various ways of looking at the world around us.
I usually see them as cultured but emotionally-crippled people with a rich history and a bright future; but then they restart the “We wanna be Chinese serfs” routine with the useless masks, cruel and ineffective lock-downs, and the unfortunate deaths of a drunken crowd on their political enemies…
A lot of the 30-50 year olds I know in the US are seemingly intelligent, nominally Christian, and yet support SpongeBrain PuddingPants and taxpayer-funded abortion on demand. Even for minors. I consider them basically the lost generation. What they claim to support is antithetical to Christianity.
Mind you, there are still people who believe the Earth is flat, so I shouldn’t be too rough on my misguided friends; but it pains me to see them gladly walking under the equivalent of an “Abandon All Hope” sign …
Work less get paid less. As long as they are willing to accept that, then sure, work less
but then they restart the “We wanna be Chinese serfs” routine with the useless masks, cruel and ineffective lock-downs,
More evidence of the Setnaffarian leader shooting himself in the foot.
Although there was a mask mandate in Korea, anyone with a clear understanding of how things are in Korea will know that although there were social distancing laws during the pandemic there was no lockdown in Korea.
Maybe he is confusing Korea with the US, Europe, and China that lockdowned their countries for weeks.
In regards to setnaffa’s previous statement that we should “talk only about Korea and say good things about Korea”, how can we have such an environment when he has no understanding and idea on how things are in Korea, while unfairly criticizing Korea?
“there were social distancing laws during the pandemic there was no lockdown in Korea.”
The chinabot’s basement doesn’t have a good view of Korea.
The government used lockdowns to pick winners and losers.
Large companies that do business in the day had some restrictions on distance, occupancy, and PPE.
Small, privately-owned business had to completely close between 9pm and midnight depending on the manufactured panic level.
One resturaunt owner complained that he had to close at 9pm and then walk by an Emart tlwhich was open until 11pm.
This is a lockdown.
But worse, it is a selective lockdown where the government chose what businesses to damage, completely against any scientific evaluation.
The chinabot may never have actually been to Korea. There are more indications of this every time it talks.
“thinking South Korea is the France of Asia”
The Koreans are the Italians of Asia.
The Japanese are the Germans of Asia.
The Chinese are the Slavs.
The Russians remain the Russians.
I can back these opinions up if necessary.
CH, so are you saying Jeju-do is more like Sicily or Malta?
I admit I was only there a short time; but I did get good seafood on all three islands.
I assume the real reasons you compare South Korea with Italy are the (1) lack of respect they receive from their neighbors, (2) the tendency to adopt forms of government already proven bad, and (3) an unfortunate tendency to drink absolute swill instead of decent alcoholic beverages.
I mean, as far as I know, South Korea hasn’t tried to invade Libya, Ethiopia, Albania, Yugoslavia, or Greece…