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  • South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash

    03/20/2023 2:44:34 PM PDT · by anthropocene_x · 28 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 15 March, 2023 | Justin McCurry
    South Korea’s government has been forced to rethink a planned rise in working hours after a backlash from younger people who said the move would destroy their work-life balance and put their health at risk. The government had intended to raise the maximum weekly working time to 69 hours after business groups complained.But protests from the country’s millennials and generation z prompted the president, Yoon Suk-yeol, to order government agencies to reconsider the measure. The plan has also been criticised as out of step with other major economies, including Britain, where dozens of companies last year trialled a four-day week...