Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The city legislature of Seoul, South Korea, is considering implementing a law that would ban after work messaging to employees, in an effort to reduce work-related stress among employees. Members of the Seoul Metropolitan Council proposed a revision to a public ordinance that would ban after-work messaging to employees of the city's government. The new rule is an attempt to guarantee employees the right to restand states that employee privacy must not be subject to employer contact outside of work hours. If passed, it would ban managers from contacting public sector employees after work hours through phone calls, text messaging, or social networking. Kim Kwang-soo, one of the councilors who submitted the ordinance revision, said that the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) must guarantee the rights of city workers by protecting them from undue stress. He said, "Of course SMG officials must always be prepared for the needs of citizens, but many of them are working under conditions that infringe on their right to rest."

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In South Korea, business locks YOU up at night.

[Pseudonymous Powers]

The city legislature of Seoul, South Korea, is considering implementing a law that would ban after work messaging to employees...

It's about time. What a chaebol's employees choose to do between 2 and 6 AM is their own damn business.

Re:Need to be passed for Private sector as well

[phantomfive]

I think Apple's problem is that a lot of the really good people left after the iPhone was released (or they died, I guess). Around 2010 I started to notice that the quality of lower-level library code had dropped. Then a couple years later, the quality of tools like xcode dropped. Now the quality problem is obvious even in the Keynote speeches.