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

>(Translated using Google)
Starting this year, the 4-day workweek system has been introduced primarily by large corporations, and work-life balance is spreading among office workers.

> Gyeonggi Province will also introduce a 4.5-day workweek on a trial basis starting next year, centered on public institutions under its jurisdiction.

> The union also has some regrets about the selection of targets, but overall, it welcomes the move.

> This is reporter Seo Seung-taek reporting.
[reporter]

> There are three main ways to shorten working hours that Gyeonggi Province will pilot starting next year.

> You can decide on one of the following through labor-management agreements: a 4-day workweek every other week, a 35-hour workweek, or a half-day workweek every Friday.

> The target is 50 private companies and some public companies in the province that are willing to voluntarily participate in the introduction of flexible working hours.

> Gyeonggi Province plans to support wages for reduced working hours.

> <Kim Dong-yeon / Gyeonggi Province Governor> “As time goes by, we live in a society where fewer and fewer people are working and more and more people are not working. In order to make the 4.5-day workweek project a national agenda, Gyeonggi Province is planning to implement it first.”

> When Gyeonggi Province announced its plan to shorten working hours, the civil servant union welcomed it.

> <Kang Sun-ha / Chairman of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Employees’ Union> “First of all, from the union’s perspective, we welcome the pilot project to reduce optional working hours without wage cuts.”

> However, concerns that the scope of implementation is limited and that the number of channels for complainants will inevitably decrease are issues that need to be addressed.

> <Kang Soon-ha / Chairman of the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Employees’ Union> “It is regrettable that the pilot project is limited to only some people, but I hope that this will be used as a basis to supplement practical issues and spread to all levels of society in the near future.”

> Attention is focused on whether Gyeonggi Province’s push to implement a 4.5-day workweek will be able to expand and spread beyond public institutions’ work productivity and innovation of a new organizational culture to private companies.

I worked that schedule in the early ’90s, as a 9-80 deal. You did your 80 hours for the two weeks in nine days, so that you had a three-day weekend every other week. Soon the two-day weekends seemed too short! But not a bad idea, frankly

In Australia our company has a 9 day fortnight. With every second Friday off, noting we work 10 days worth of hours over the 9 days.

Good.

Too bad they work 1563 hours per day tho 🙁

And after that you need to go outside for a drink with your boss because the loser has no friends

Makes sense to me

And Greece just passed a law for a 6-day work week…