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If Koreans really want to work less, then some company would reduce the work week to 40 hours and get flooded with all of Korea's best employees. The fact that
by miguelrochefort 8y ago
If Koreans really want to work less, then some company would reduce the work week to 40 hours and get flooded with all of Korea's best employees.
The fact that this hasn't happened means that something else is preventing the market from regulating itself.
Perhaps people prefer to work longer hours and possibly earn more. Perhaps the market is very competitive and this is the only way to stay relevant. Perhaps something makes it difficult for companies to hire more employees. Perhaps Korean people can work 68 hours with little diminishing return. Perhaps the taxes are too high. I don't know.
- yongjik 8y ago> If Koreans really want to work less, then some company would reduce the work week to 40 hours and ... ... another big company that deals with them will call them on 5 pm Friday, request an extra shipment by 10 am next Monday, get angry ("What do you mean? Weekend? Do I look like your friend?") and cancel the deal. The company goes bankrupt. You don't know much about Korean work culture, do you.
- pgeorgi 8y agoFew countries have the workplace mobility required for such an experiment to work: There are countries where the social expectation is that you start in a company as an intern or apprentice and leave it to retire some 45 years later.