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Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea - NotebookCheck.net News (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is because employees in South Korea can "only" work a maximum of 52 hours per week, including twelve hours of overtime. As a result, employees often have to leave work and go home even when important tasks have not yet been completed. For this reason, key employees of the Exynos team are reported to have worked unpaid overtime more and more frequently over the past few years, with the extra hours going unrecorded.

Why is SK's birth rate in the shitter.

[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

This almost reads like an onion article

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

We kept whipping and whipping but the work never seemed to get done. The only excuse they have is that half the team died from exhaustion or suicide, and they aren't getting severance!

[–] kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

Hire more people? Increase pay and vacation incentives? Provide employee protection?

Nah. Just make them work more unpaid overtime ans blame them for being unproductive.

[–] challengerzinnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 1 month ago

what the fuck

[–] wosat@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In what I'm sure is totally unrelated news, South Korea's work force is predicted to shrink by half in the next 50 years.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Samsung doesn't care, they produce somewhere else by then. Globalism in a nutshell.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

Fuck that shit

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Uncapped overtime excuses bad management. I get why they're pissed, this puts a spotlight on how bad they are at management.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

What the hell. Where's the line for Korea?

[–] TseseJuer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

your slaves er I mean employees are burnt the fuck out who TF is breaking records at work while wasting 30% of their lives making profit for some shit head shareholder

[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

These bell ends never heard of overtime pay? Shift work?