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Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Only for executives? Sounds like a good move actually.

The shit trickles down. I foresee Saturday morning meetings for their direct reports, etc until everyone works 6 days, or signal themselves as disloyal non team players.

It's a pity managers see themselves as "up". They should see themselves as below the engineers and accountants and whatever. Managing is a supporting role if done properly. The boss mentality is corrosive.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Ugh - the “burning platform”. Is it ever used authentically? Does it ever go well? I do believe that its typically inauthentic use is mostly self-defeating – people can smell inauthenticity a mile away.

Maybe it's a kind of test where how and what you do during it is evaluated, not the stated objectives of fighting fire for the business. But as another comment pointed out with twitter execs sleeping under desks, even they got fired.

Perhaps it's not even a test but a kind of warning that layoffs of managers will happen regardless. Given that, what would game suggest as an optimal playing strategy?

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

A small country that effectively operates as an island with angry nuclear-armed neighbors and no natural resources has figured out how to survive in the world through the skills nurtured within its own people.

South Korea doesn't have the privileges that Canada and Finland both have of friendly adjacent neighbors and natural resources, which provide opportunities when Nortel and Nokia respectively stopped succeeding in the marketplace.

That being said, there have been terrible knock-on effects from this societal policy. Brutal work culture, low birth rates and much more.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The shit trickles down. I foresee Saturday morning meetings for their direct reports, etc until everyone works 6 days, or signal themselves as disloyal non team players.

It's a pity managers see themselves as "up". They should see themselves as below the engineers and accountants and whatever. Managing is a supporting role if done properly. The boss mentality is corrosive.

As we say at home: "fallen upwards due to lack of weight."

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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I hate Koreans for doing this to other Koreans. I will never ever get over how koreans basically turned the whole country into hell joseon and there is no escape. Korea would be a much better place if they allowed themselves some slack.

Aren't Japan and China very similar? They are all societies where the group is valued as more important than the individual.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Does anyone have a theory why Korean currency is depreciating?

It's all about monetary policy, Japan is also affected by this as their interest rates are out of sync with North America, pushing people to leave the local currency to pursue higher interest rates in US Dollars.

Re: Samsung shifts executives to six-day workweeks to 'inject a sense of crisis'

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Does anyone have a theory why Korean currency is depreciating?

I'll take a stab, not much knowledge of the specifics.

Relatively high household and govt debt levels + anaemic growth causing central bank to lag on increasing rates to the level that the market sees as worthy of the risk.

Am I close? It's the AUD model but I figure it's close.

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