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How do Korean employees feel about changes in working life due to Covid-19?

ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฒ„์ „์€ ์•„๋ž˜์ชฝ์—์„œ ์ œ๊ณต๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค

Positive Changes in the Korean workplace During Covid 19 

Every generation has different values and thoughts. 

Millennials and Gen Zs have valued their professional and personal life, with a new focus on work-life blending overbalance.  Work is a platform for them to develop their skills, experiences and to achieve their career aspirations. These generations, especially Gen Z and younger Millennials, are not afraid to express and take action to achieve their own unique aspirations. 

As discussed in previous articles on work-life blending, work and life are equally important to them and these generations are savvy enough to look for the right ingredient to concoct their own blend of โ€œwork-life blendingโ€ 

Perhaps the biggest realization for Boomer, Gen X, (older Millennials) is with the change in focus to work-life blending from work-life balance (the end product), the ingredients to the end product have changed as well. 

How do Korean employees feel about changes in working life due to Covid-19?

If you are baking a cake, you will need flour, sugar, milk

If you are making spaghetti bolognese, you will need pasta and tomato. 

For Gen X and Bomer, team-building dinner was an important ingredient for communication and building relationships with team members, can we say the same for millennials and Gen Zs in 2021? 

Nowadays, some companies attempt different approaches for the same purpose such as watching movies together instead of having dinner, but that just like swapping out milk with skimmed milk, a lighter version of the same thing. 

In 2020, the workplace experienced unprecedented changes in Korea due to the unexpected pandemic, companies imposed new guidelines for employees to follow social distance. Interestingly, created an ideal workplace for millennials and Gen Zs.

How do Korean employees feel about changes in working life due to Covid-19?

According to a survey of 1,925 office workers on โ€œwork-life changes caused by Covid-19, 66.5% of the respondents said it was a positive change. (Source: Job Korea)

More efficient ways to spend their individual time and money were the positive results from the change. These are the ingredients that these generations seek when it comes to their work-life blending aspirations. 

Gen Zs are beginning to make an impact in society now and soon a bigger impact in your organisation. To establish a future-oriented organisational culture, we need to learn more about them, find the ingredients they seek and achieve generational diversity. Which will only server to create a competitive advantage in the organisation.

โ€œ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜จ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”โ€ 

์• ์‚ฌ์‹ฌ์ด ํฌ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™€ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋™์ผ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ–ฅ์ด ๋†’์•˜๋˜ X์„ธ๋Œ€์™€, ๋ณธ์ธ์˜ ๊ฐœ์„ฑ์„ ์ค‘์‹œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด์˜ ํ™์ˆ˜ ์†์—์„œ ์„ฑ์žฅํ•œ Z์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€์€ ํ˜„์ €ํžˆ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค. ์„ธ๋Œ€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ์ถฉ๋Œ์€ ๋ณดํ†ต ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ์•ผ๊ธฐ๋œ๋‹ค.

๋‹จํŽธ์ ์ธ ์˜ˆ๋กœ, X์„ธ๋Œ€๋Š” ํšŒ์‹์„ ํŒ€์› ๊ฐ„์˜ ํ™”ํ•ฉ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ธ์‹ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, Z์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด ์™ธ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—…๋ฌดํ™”๋กœ ์ธ์‹๋œ๋‹ค. ์ผ๊ฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์žฅ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ•  ๋ฌธํ™”๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. 

ํŠธ๋ Œ๋””ํ•œ ํšŒ์‹ ๋ฌธํ™”์˜ ๋„์ž…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์˜ํ™” ๋ณด๊ธฐ ๋“ฑ ๋ฌธํ™” ํ™œ๋™์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๊ฐ–๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” Z์„ธ๋Œ€์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์€ ๊ณฑ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

โ€œ์‹œ๋Œ€์ฐฉ์˜ค์ ์ด์—์š”. ๊ทธ๋Ÿด ๋ˆ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ด‰์ด๋‚˜ ์˜ฌ๋ ค์คฌ์œผ๋ฉด ์ข‹๊ฒ ์ฃ . (์›ƒ์Œ)โ€ โ€“ 20๋Œ€, ์ทจ์—…์ค€๋น„์ƒ 

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ˆ๊ธฐ์น˜ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋˜ ํŒฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน์ด ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ, ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‘๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์‹œ๋จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ๋œ ์—…๋ฌด ์ง€์นจ์€ ๋ฐ€๋ ˆ๋‹ˆ์–ผ ์„ธ๋Œ€์™€ Z์„ธ๋Œ€๊ฐ€ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„๋‹ค.

How do Korean employees feel about changes in working life due to Covid-19?

์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜19๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์ง์žฅ ์ƒํ™œ ๋ณ€ํ™”โ€์— ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง์žฅ์ธ 1,925๋ช…์„ ๋Œ€์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ 66.5%์˜ ์‘๋‹ต์ž๊ฐ€ ๊ธ์ •์ ์ธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ผ๊ณ  ์‘๋‹ตํ–ˆ๋‹ค. (์ถœ์ฒ˜ : ์žก์ฝ”๋ฆฌ์•„)

์‘๋‹ตํ•œ ํ•ญ๋ชฉ๋“ค์—๋Š” ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๊ณตํ†ต์ ์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ ˆ๊ฐ๋œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ผ๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์›ํ•˜๋Š” MZ ์„ธ๋Œ€์— ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์ธ ์…ˆ์ด๋‹ค.

์•„์ง์€ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์ดˆ๋…„์ƒ์— ๋ถˆ๊ณผํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ๋ฆ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‡Œ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ์žฅ์•…ํ•  MZ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋Š” ๋งค์šฐ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ€์šด ์†Œ์‹์ด๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์ง€ํ–ฅ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๋‚ด ๋ฌธํ™”๋ฅผ ์ •์ฐฉํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ์ด๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ฐฐ์›Œ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋“ค์„ ๋” ์ž˜ ์•Œ๊ณ , ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•จ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ธ๋Œ€๊ฐ„์˜ ์œตํ•ฉ์„ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋ฆฌ๋ผ ๋ฏฟ๋Š”๋‹ค.

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