• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.325-350
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• 2011

This article examines part-time work in the UK in terms of its characteristics and institutional contexts. Part-time jobs developed early due to the UK's liberal market institution and low level of public support for female employment. A large proportion of the employed women (about 40 percent) work part-time. Part-time work has been largely for married women. The expansion of part-time work in the UK was primarily market-driven and led by employers. Married women have worked part-time work primarily to accommodate their family responsibilities. There have been significant changes in labor market regulation in the UK since 1997. The Labor government legislated the Part-time Workers Regluations in 2000 to protect part-time workers. The government has also changed and newly implemented various laws and policies for work-life balance. There has been a real progress in improving the quality of part-time work overall. Nevertheless, we have not seen qualitatively different results in terms of female employment patterns and the qualify of part-time work so far. It has been largely constrained by the government's liberal orienation and voluntarism of labor relations in the UK.

• 월간 기계설비
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• s.322
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• pp.112-115
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• 2017

근로기준법상 법정근로간은 1일 8시간, 주40시간입니다. 정부는 4월 14일부터 인사혁신처를 시작으로 금요일 조기퇴근제를 실시할 예정이라고 하는데요. 주40시간 범위내에서 월~목까지 매일 30분씩 연장 근로하는 대신 한달 중 금 1회 오후 4시에 조기퇴근하는 방식으로 운용될 예정이라고 합니다. 공공기관에서는 이미 유연근로시간제가 실시되고 있는 사업장도 있고 별도 연장 근무 없이 Family day 또는 culture day 등으로 명명하고 월 1회 조기 퇴근하는 제도를 운용하고 있기도 합니다. 기존에 자율적으로 기업형편에 따라 실시되었던 유언근로시간제와 더불어 금 조기퇴근제도는 공기업을 중심으로 좀 더 확대될 것으로 보입니다. 다만 국가공무원법이 적용되는 공무원과 달리 민간부문에서 유연근로시간제도를 도입하고자 할 경우에는 근로기준법을 준수하여야 하므로 법률에서 정한 유연근로시간제도의 유형에 따라 취업규칙의 변경 또는 근로자대표와의 서면합의 등의 절차를 거쳐야 합니다. 금요일 4시 조기퇴근제도는 탄력적 근로시간제도의 일 유형이라고 볼 수 있기에 이번 호에서는 탄력적 근로시간제도에 대해 알아보고자 합니다.

• Journal of Venture Innovation
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.97-108
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• 2021

Labor contracts appear in form as an exchange relationship between labor products and wages, but since they transcend the level of simple barter, they can be economically identified as "trading" and can be identified as "rental." From a legal point of view, a legal device that legally supports and imposes binding force on commodity exchange relations is a contract. Such a labor contract led to a relationship in which wages were received and a certain amount of time was placed under the direction and supervision of the employer as a counter benefit to the receipt of wages. Since working hours are subordinate hours with one's labor under the disposition authority of the employer, long hours of work can be done for the health and safety of workers and furthermore, it can be an act that violates the value to enjoy as a human being. The reduction of working hours needs to be shortened in terms of productivity and enjoyment of workers' culture so that they can expand and reproduce, but users' corporate management labor and production activities should also be compatible compared to those pursued by capitalist countries. Working hours can be seen as individual time and time in society as a whole, and long hours of work at the individual level are reduced, which is undesirable at the individual level, but an increase in products due to an increase in production time at the social level can help social development. It is necessary to consider working hours in terms of finding the balance between these individual and social levels. If the regulation method of working hours was to regulate the total amount of working hours, flexibility and elasticity of working hours are a qualitative regulation method that allows companies to flexibly allocate and organize working hours within a certain range of up to 52 hours per week. Accordingly, it is necessary to shorten working hours, but expand and implement the flexible working hours system according to the situation of the company. To this end, it is necessary to flexibly operate the flexible working hours system, which is currently limited to six months, handle the selective working hours by agreement between employers and workers, and expand the target work of discretionary working hours according to the development of information and communication technology and new types based on the 4th industrial revolution.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.169-175
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• 2013

Smart flexible work has been a topic of considerable interest to researchers, practitioners, and public policy advocates as a tool to help individuals manage work and family roles. In this study, we investigated the types of smart flexible work arrangement and analyzed the organizational units associated with it. We found that the critical success factors of smart flexible work and the specific types of flexibility make a difference in the effects found. And we proposed on the direction of policy promotion that can contribute to the introduction of smart flexible work.

• Korean Journal of Labor Studies
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.297-323
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• 2011

Part-time jobs in Sweden are highly feminized yet are in fair conditions in terms of job security, earnings, and collective representation. Three points are considered to be important to understand why part-time work in Sweden carries such positive characteristics. First, the part-time work in Sweden is widely spread not as a result of employers' need for labor flexibilization but as means to enhance the work-life balance, a value pursued within a broader social policy package to change the breadwinner model. Second, discrimination against part-time workers is restrained in Sweden because the boundary between part-time and full-time is not conspicuous. Most of part-time jobs are occupied by regular workers who exert the right to part-time work, hence may go back to the full-time status any time. Third, the regulation on overtime work of part-time workers as well as full-time workers is strong. It is largely agreed among researchers that part-time work contributed greatly to an increase of female employment rate in Sweden. Since the 1970s, the increased availability of part-time jobs induced married women who used to be economically inactive to the labor market and maintained them to be economically active throughout the child rearing period. From the gender perspective, one may still raise issues regarding part-time work in Sweden such as persistent feminization and strong occupational sex segregation. However, the observed trend shows that the part-time work in Sweden has functioned more as a stepping stone to the full-time work for women than as a women's trap.

• Korean Architects
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• s.629
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• pp.134-136
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• 2021

• Journal of the Korean Regional Science Association
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.59-71
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• 2019

Korea's average annual working hours are among the highest in the OECD. Such long-term work has been a factor that reduces the quality of life by discouraging workers' productivity and interrupting the compatibility of work and family, prompting the government to encourage flexible work systems, such as increasing part-time jobs, but a lack of quality part-time jobs. Part-time work enables flexible labor for workers, but at the same time, workers will involuntarily opt for part-time work as they have poor working conditions and negative social views. In this respect, the effect of the working type on an individual's life is expected to be different. In addition, for women, gender gaps exist in the labor market and the impact of part-time work on life satisfaction is expected to differ from men in terms of working and family alike. Using the data from the 2017 "Seoul Survey Urban Policy Indicator Survey", the ordered logistic regression model was used to analyze the cross-effect of working type and sex on satisfaction. The analysis of the study showed that when other factors were controlled, life satisfaction was high in the order of fulltime female, full-time male, part-time female, and part-time male. In addition, further analysis shows that the parttime female workers have the highest probability of choosing low life satisfaction, while the probability of choosing high life satisfaction is the lowest, and full-time male workers have the lowest probability of choosing low life satisfaction, while the highest probability of choosing high life satisfaction is the highest.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.37-51
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• 2022

This study examines the relationship between flexible work and workers' work-life balance using data from the 23rd Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, with a focus on the impact of working from home (WFH) during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the analysis, WFH was found to have a positive effect on the happiness of workers, satisfaction with family relationships, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction related to job security for women. In addition, we looked at the changes in time use of WFH workers and non-WFH workers before and after COVID-19, with a particular focus on aspects such as time spent sleeping and on self-development, childcare, housework, exercise, and social gatherings. Compared to non-WFH workers, WFH workers increased the time spent on housework and childcare after COVID-19, with this trend more pronounced among women. The results of this study suggest that the effect of utilizing WFH may be halved for workers who have to take care of children and work at the same time, and that this effect may be greater for women. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen social support measures so that WFH workers who face a work-life conflict due to childcare can maintain work productivity and realize a work-life balance, and to ensure that the flexible work arrangement should not be a medium that reinforces traditional gender roles. Active policy efforts will be required to make sure this happens.

• Korea Information Processing Society Review
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.59-72
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• 2011

조직의 경쟁력 확보차원에서 공공부문에 도입한 유연근무제가 제도시행 2년차에 접어들었다. 근로자들에게 일하는 시간과 장소에 있어서 유연성을 제공하게 되어 일-가족 양립이라는 현실적인 문제가 해결되었다. 그 결과 근로자의 직무만족과 사기진작으로 이어지면서 생산성 향상에 많은 기여를 하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 유연근무제도 도입 첫 해인 2010년도 중앙 및 지방자치단체 운영현황을 분석한 결과 근무유형별로는 시차 출퇴근제가 90.5%로 가장 높은 비중을 차지하였고, 신청사유별로는 여가 자기계발, 출퇴근 편의, 효율적 업무수행, 임신 육아 순이 20%내외로 고루 분포되었다. 남녀의 비율별로는 남성이 63.3%, 여성이 36.4%로 전체공무원 남녀비율과 유사한 것으로 나타났다. 제도시행 초기인 점을 고려하여 설문을 통하여 운영현황을 점검하고 그 결과를 바탕으로 법령 제도상 문제점과 공직문화 내부 장애요인을 도출한 후 SWOT chart 분석기법을 통해 향후 활성화 방안 및 추진계획을 제시하였다. 특히, IT기술의 발달로 인한 시간과 장소에 얽매이지 않고 언제 어디서나 일할 수 있는 선진화된 근무방식인 스마트워크의 확충 필요성과 활성화 방안에 대한 구체적인 추진계획도 제시하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.966-973
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• 2013

It has been frequently asked the question not only by academicians but also by practitioners whether employment flexibility can be compatible with employment stability. This study tries to find the answer by investigating the German model of employment flexibility practices and job stability policies. The German model of employment flexibility is mainly based on working-time accounts and short-time work programs. It is found that social partnership and government support have played a crucial role to stabilize German labour market. Workers, employers, and government have harmoniously interplayed in order for overcoming the economic hardship. Adapting the German experience of overcoming economic turbulence by introducing employment flexibilization can help Korean firms. However, it is important to recognize that there are some differences in practices of labour relations, cultural and social background while applying the German practices.