Depending on the state of the pandemic in the country, all employees are required to return to the office starting next March.
Fathers who took parental leave account for 24.1%, up 1.5 percentage points from the previous year, reflecting changes in social norms.
Compared to large organisations, about four in 10 employees working for organisations with less than 300 staff are non-regular workers.
On average, employees in South Korea start to earn more than they spend at age 27, before this turns into a deficit at age 61.
Childcare has been cited as the main reason why married women in the country choose to leave the workforce.
Efforts are ongoing to create employment opportunities for South Korea’s elderly population, which is expected to reach 10 million by 2025.
While work hours have declined over the past decade, employees in the country are still among those in the world who record the most hours at work.
South Korea has the smallest share of parents who go on leave for their children among developed nations, even as the country's workforce continues to shrink.
A corporate tax reduction will improve cash flow that can then be directed to employment and investments, say the lobby groups.
South Korea’s employment and workplace practices need to be more flexible and in line with global standards, said the Federation of Korean Industries.
Job training and reskilling are measures that can be taken to create more employment opportunities in 2023, says business group.
Besides the lack of job vacancies, some South Koreans are taking time to better prepare, which accounts for their inactivity in the job market.
New data has found that nearly 360,000 young adults in South Korea spent more than three years in landing their first job.
A presidential advisory group has called for flexibility in implementing the 52-hour workweek which was first adopted in 2019.
The South Korean tech giant has opened six co-working spaces to provide a hybrid work environment for employees.
Employment in South Korea reached 28.38 in September, up 707,000 from last year, marking the largest year-on-year growth since 1999.
More must be done to inncrease female labour force participation, which is crucial to boost economic growth, says the IMF.
More South Korean workers in their 20s are staying idle amid poorer employment conditions or are engaged in temporary employment.
The rollout of flexible working arrangements varied by company size, with a greater number of larger firms offering such arrangements than smaller firms.
A proposed bill prohibits employers from making repeated or constant work-related instructions after statutory working hours.
The employment rate for women in South Korea was at 51.2% last year, which was 18.8 percentage points lower than the male employment rate.
Among small business employees, only 9.6% were paid extra for extended working hours and only 13.2% had annual leave provision.
Six out of 10 big businesses in South Korea either have no hiring plans or have yet to finalise them for the rest of 2022.
Men were found to be more sensitive than women to negative perceptions toward using parental leave, according to a new survey.
Some 66.6% of South Korean workers believe that flexible work systems are effective in reducing unnecessary overtime work.
The government also plans to tap into state funds to alleviate the debts of the self-employed and smaller merchants.
With the departure of foreign labour, factories are increasingly turning to the elderly workforce to solve their staffing crunch.
They like the flexibility to choose their working hours and enjoy the freedom from corporate culture and relationships.
The labour ministry is now making it compulsory for all workplaces employing a certain number of regular employees to provide rest facilities for their staff.
Despite the loss, Forrester expects the green economy to help make up for some losses as more countries commit to carbon neutrality.