Korea will ab 2025 alle zwei Wochen eine 4-Tage-Woche einführen

https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240822050662

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  1. I know which week I’d use for vacations, sick pay, life leave etc…

  2. I had this at an old job and loved it.  Work an extra hour Mon to Thursday and every other Friday off.  An extra 26 long weekends a year.

  3. Is it working four 16hour shifts, in line with the proposed increase of allowed working week?

  4. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://m.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20240822050662) reduced by 60%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Gyeonggi Province is pushing forward with South Korea's first pilot four-and-a-half-day workweek program aimed at improving people's work-life balance, quality of life, happiness and ideally, the falling birth rate.

    > Gyeonggi's pilot project, the governor explained, involves 50 private companies and public organizations in the province experimenting with reduced working hours in three ways: some are working a four-day workweek every other week; some are adopting a 35-hour workweek; and some are working a half day every Friday.

    > While some provincial council members from the conservative ruling People Power Party have criticized the lack of communication in the process of advancing the plan, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Civil Servants Union has welcomed the pilot project, stating it hopes the reduction of working hours without pay cuts is expanded to all levels of society in the near future.

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  6. Why is korea, which is rapidly aging and losing its workforce, out of all countries decides to do this?

    I get that it sounds good on paper but long term? Maybe it can work with a strong population growth or immigration

  9. Anyone who already having a 4-day workweek? can you tell us how does it feel

  11. > some are adopting a 35-hour workweek; and some are working a half day every Friday

    Knowing Korea, they *will* find a way to keep them for 40-hours per week anyway. Overtime the days they work, or something like that.

  12. How to make it as complicated as possible.
    “Let’s do 4 days, then 5 days, then 4 days, then 5 days… We’ll call it a 4 day week tryout, sort of, you know… LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER!!”

  13. I alternate between working Monday – Thursday one week, and then Monday – Friday the following week, my hours during the day never change

    Honestly it has been a massive game changer for me. Now I can plan 3 day trips without using a holiday day, but normally it’s my “fuck off and leave me alone day”, just that little bit of extra rest gives me way more energy for chores, socialising, activities, ect on saturday & sunday

  14. Its like having a bank holiday every week like this week 🙂

    Love it!

  15. So a 9/80? Major corporations in the US have had that schedule for decades…

  16. Doctor here. Sometimes I wonder what it feels like to have a career that is Mon to Fri 8-5, let alone 4 days a week. In the last 2 months I basically had Monday to Thursday + a 24-hour shift on a Friday to Saturday every week. Sometimes I just dream of a full weekend.

  17. I work for a company that has a slightly different take on this. We work an extra 30 minutes a day and get every Friday off in July and August and and extra 6 days holiday at Christmas on top of the usual statutory days (25th, 26th)

    I love it. I’d love the proposed Korean model even more of not having to work the extra to accrue the time off!

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