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摒弃加班文化 首尔将强制关电脑

The government in South Korea's capital is introducing a new initiative to force its employees to leave work on time - by powering down all their computers at 20:00 on Fridays.
 
韩国首尔市政府将实行新举措,每周五晚8点切断办公电脑的电源,强制政府工作人员按时下班。
 
It says it is trying to stop a "culture of working overtime".
 
South Korea has some of the longest working hours in the world.
 
Government employees there work an average of 2,739 hours a year - about 1,000 hours more than workers in other developed countries.
 
The shutdown initiative in the Seoul Metropolitan Government is set to roll out across three phases over the next three months.
 
The programme will begin on March 30, with all computers switched off by 20:00.
 
The second phase starts in April, with employees having their computers turned off by 19:30 on the second and fourth Friday that month.
 
From May on, the programme will be in full-swing, with computers shut off by 19:00 every Friday.