Now you can relax — whether you like it or not. Anyway, in South Korea. And if at the end of the day you do not turn off your computer, it will do for you.
In March, the authorities have already approved the bill, according to which the maximum number of working hours reduced from 68 to 52 per week. At the end of the month will become another initiative that aims to get public servants to finally go home: the so-called three-phase shutdown. During the first phase, the employees ‘ computers will be automatically shut down on Friday at 20.00, during the second in 19.30, in the second and fourth Friday of the month. During the third phase, which is planned for may, they start off even earlier — at 19.00 every Friday.
Why is South Korea so you want to rest?
According to statistics, South Korea’s civil servants work more than their counterparts in other countries about 1,000 hours per year. Another chronic workaholic Japan, where to send employees home early decided after the tragic death Matsuri Takahashi, 24.
Takahashi, a promising graduate of the prestigious Japanese University, committed suicide in December 2015. The girl suffered from depression, developed on the background of the surge: a month before her death, she pererabotka 100 hours.
Authorities described the death of Matsuri Takahashi as karosi — «death from overwork«. Now in Japan officially recognized karoshi two types: as a result of cardiovascular disease and suicide because of stress.
After the suicide of Matsuri, the government released an official report showing that more than a fifth of the companies employees are processed for at least 80 hours per month. In the period from January 2010 to March 2015th was recorded in 368 of suicides due to overwork, and even these figures noted in the report was incomplete.
Then the authorities decided to introduce «premium days«that allows employees to leave work early to go home on the last Friday of the month. However, studies have shown a year later, this possibility was used only 11% of employees. Yet it remains a guess if using it in South Korea.
As is the case in other countries?
According to statistics, most of the irregular work schedule need to worry about Mexico. Here, the average resident works 2,246 hours per year, while the South Koreans ranked second with 2,113 hours per year. Third — and in Europe and is the first — are the citizens of Greece with 2,042 hours. The top five leaders of Russia (1,978 hours).
USA, in seventh place. The average American works 1,779-hour shift for the year, but the biggest workaholics in the country are the residents of San Francisco. WalletHub determined the most diligent employees in the United States on a 100-point scale, awarded them 78.52 points. Followed by Fremont (78.28) and Jersey (74.14). Washington finished fourth (74.06), and new York — fifth (71.88).
