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South Korea Cuts Its Work Limit From 68 Hours a Week To 52 (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: South Korea has lowered its maximum working hours from 68 hours a week to 52 hours. The legislation, which went into effect Sunday, received overwhelming support in the National Assembly in an effort to limit the time employees spend on the job. South Korea has the third highest number of hours worked of 37 countries tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, with the average person in South Korea working about 2,024 hours in 2017, or approximately 38.9 hours a week.
Now let's do that here in the US. No exceptions. If the job requires more than 50 hours to accomplish then you need more people doing it. If you can't afford to have more people doing the job then you shouldn't be in business.
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Tesla is working 12 hour shifts in open air tents in order to push product out the door. At least South Korea has some sense.
We here in the US work 40 hours per week. So there !!
"The average person in South Korea worked about 2024 hours in 2017, or approximately 38.9 hours a week."
This falls within the standard 35~40 hours per week, doesn't it?
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Yes. I think I am missing something. Is 40 hours a week seen as too much in the international scene?
What average are they talking about though? The mean, median, or mode? If it's the mean, you could have half of the population working about 80 hours and the other half working about 0, yet your mean still comes out to 38.9 hours even though no one person actually works even close to that.
There's plenty of other "gotchas" that might be built in such as taking the total number of hours divided by 52 weeks in a year, without accounting that the average person has several weeks of vacation so that the real hours worked per week is much higher.
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A few factors to consider, depend on the exact methodology used.:
1. People not in the workforce, such as children and retirees.
2. Part timers.
3. Vacation time.
Just two weeks vacation turns a 40 hour week into a 38.5 workweek.
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Judging by this blurp,
I'm guessing the figure includes people who are working part-time (or possibly not even working at all, if it is a "per-capita" number of hours worked).
Ffs. Simple maths too hard for you?
That's 38.9 hours every single week. Which is a stupid measurement, but none the less.
Workers in South Korean work their arses of. The problem with this new law is it will be ignored as much at the old one.
In large companies 60 hours is generally considered the minimum, with more expected of you want a promotion.
Guess a slacker downvoted you.
No idea how DontBeAMoran's comment is relevant.
I got few blue collar childhood friends who regularly work 60+ hours a week. For them laws like this law will lower their standard of life. They rely on 60-80 hour weeks to cover for 10-20 hour weeks.
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there's above average folks who can put the hours in. Normally they'd be rare and in high demand, but thanks to the H1-B program you can bring as many over as you want and keep cycling until you find one. Sure, even they eventually burn out, but thanks to overpopulation there's no shortage of them.
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Indeed, the median of those working full time would be much more useful a figure.
2024 hours in the year average: 52 weeks in a year, -15 public holidays not falling on a weekend, - 15 mandatory vacation days = 46 weeks.
The average person worked 44 hours in a week. So no, not within the standard.
Bob Slydell: You see, what we're trying to do is get a feeling for how people spend their time at work so if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh - after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
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In six days they can now get 104 hours of production.