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Peer-reviewedCC BY-NC 4.0Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Workers' opinions on working time regulations: results from the 5th Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study (KWSHS)

  • Jeong Woo Park1,2
  • Seong-Sik Cho3
  • Mo-Yeol Kang4
  • Min Choi5
  • Jongwoo Lee6
6 affiliations
  1. 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Yeungnam University Medical Center, Daegu, Korea
  2. 2Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Korea
  3. 3Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
  4. 4Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
  5. 5Korea Institute of Labor Safety and Health, Seoul, Korea
  6. 6Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Bokeum Hospital, Gimhae, Korea
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Abstract

Despite ongoing policy debates on working time reform, public perspectives on specific regulatory measures among Korean workers remain underexplored. This study analyzed data from the 5th Wave of the Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study (KWSHS), an online survey conducted in September 2024 among 5,783 working adults aged 19–70. Participants reported their opinions on six working time regulatory measures: A majority of respondents supported all five proposed regulatory measures. Support was highest for introducing a daily working hours cap (72.1% agree or strongly agree), followed by regulating non-essential night work (63.2%), restricting weekend work for large supermarkets (60.7%), extending the cap to small companies (60.1%), and introducing the weekly cap for exempt industries (52.8%). Findings suggest broad support for strengthening working-time regulations, though results should be interpreted considering the sample's higher proportion of office workers.

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@article{park2026workers,
  title = {{Workers' opinions on working time regulations: results from the 5th Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study (KWSHS)}},
  author = {Jeong Woo Park and Seong-Sik Cho and Mo-Yeol Kang and Min Choi and Jongwoo Lee},
  journal = {Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine},
  year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  doi = {10.35371/aoem.2026.38.e32},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2026.38.e32},
  note = {CC BY-NC 4.0},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Workers' opinions on working time regulations: results from the 5th Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study (KWSHS)
AU  - Jeong Woo Park
AU  - Seong-Sik Cho
AU  - Mo-Yeol Kang
AU  - Min Choi
AU  - Jongwoo Lee
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/07/21
JO  - Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
DO  - 10.35371/aoem.2026.38.e32
UR  - https://doi.org/10.35371/aoem.2026.38.e32
AB  - Despite ongoing policy debates on working time reform, public perspectives on specific regulatory measures among Korean workers remain underexplored. This study analyzed data from the 5th Wave of the Korean Work, Sleep, and Health Study (KWSHS), an online survey conducted in September 2024 among 5,783 working adults aged 19–70. Participants reported their opinions on six working time regulatory measures: A majority of respondents supported all five proposed regulatory measures. Support was highest for introducing a daily working hours cap (72.1% agree or strongly agree), followed by regulating non-essential night work (63.2%), restricting weekend work for large supermarkets (60.7%), extending the cap to small companies (60.1%), and introducing the weekly cap for exempt industries (52.8%). Findings suggest broad support for strengthening working-time regulations, though results should be interpreted considering the sample's higher proportion of office workers.
SN  - 2052-4374
ER  -