South Korea tried to push an almost 70-hour work week, but was forced to rethink after millennials and Gen Z protested
The changes were a potential solution to business complaints about being unable to meet deadlines because of the working limit.
But the government has been forced to revise its strategy after opposition from younger generations including Millennials and Gen Z, a number of reports say. After ditching the policy, the government will attempt to"communicate better with the public, especially with generation Z and millennials,""The proposal does not make any sense… and is so far from what workers actually want," 25-year-old Jung Junsik, a university student from Seoul told CNN."My own father works excessively every week and there is no boundary between work and life.
Labor unions like the Federation of Korean Trade Unions have attacked the plan calling it"toxic" and"anachronistic," and saying that the government would be"forcing workers into ultra-long hours of intensive work,"South Korea is infamous for its long working hours, with the average citizen working for 1,915 hours in 2021, according to the
. That ranks among the five highest working hours in developed nations, and well above the 1,716 hours worked on average by people in the OECD. In the US, the average worker worked 1,767 hours in 2021. — a Korean word for death by overwork, as the country's working hours exceed the average across the world.
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