After working for a week, a holiday is very comfortable for any employee. Most people wait for Saturday and Sunday after Friday, so that you can rest for two days, but do you know that in South Korea, the trend of three days holiday has started instead of two days. Is not interesting. Let us now tell about it in detail.

In fact, a special method was adopted to give relief to the employees at Severns Hospital in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. According to a report by ‘Al Jazeera’, the Severrance now makes the hospital workers work for four days a week. He gives three days off. Savence took this decision to increase the quality of medical staff work and give relief to them. However, this rule is currently running on trial mode.

Salary has to be cut for a holiday for 3 days a week

The trial was launched after the agreement between employees and management in 2023. Under this, some employees get three days off every week, but instead their salary is cut by 10 percent. According to the report, after three days of holiday a week, there has been a lot of improvement in the lives of employees. The quality of their work has increased. Prior to this trial, experienced nurses were leaving a lot of jobs, but now the rate of job has come down from 19.5 percent to 7 percent.

South Korean employees worked 1.865 hours a year

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) According to, South Korean employees worked an average of 1,865 hours in the year 2024, which is the sixth highest in developed countries. it OECD K is more than an average of 1,736 hours. South Korean employees work 248 hours more than the employees of their neighboring country Japan.