South Korea to stop people working late.
- Staff Writer
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min read
The BBC reported that the Seoul Metropolitan Government in South Korea wants to introduce an initiative to force people to leave work at the end of working days as many employees continue to work throughout the night.
It is said that the government has noticed a growing culture in the norm of working late, and wants to try and stop this growing norm. The report stated that employees in government in South Korea work an average of 2,739 hours a year. This is up to 1000 hours more than workers in other developed countries.
The roll out planned for Seoul’s shutdown initiative will take place over the next three months:
Phase one will power down office computers at 8pm on Fridays. Phase two starts in April, which will have employees' computers turned off at 8:30pm on the second and fourth Friday of the month.
In phase three during May, computers will be shut off at 7pm every Friday. Exemptions may be provided, with 67.1% of government workers asking to be exempt.
Posted 23 March 2018 | Staff Writer.
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