Samsung Group failed to achieve its goals last year. High oil prices, the depreciation of the Korean won and rising financing costs also prevented the company from achieving its 2023 targets. For this reason, Samsung has enabled emergency mode and 6 days a week work system passed. In this system, those who worked six days were senior managers and not production workers.

The new arrangement also allows the company’s senior managers to work five days a week on Saturday or Sunday They will also go to the company headquarters and work overtime. These services explore business strategies and study strategies that the company can pursue.

Six days of work for bosses

Employees below management level continue to work for five days. All managers of the company’s departments, such as display, electromechanical and SDS, were affected by this arrangement. In this way, the company wants to maintain its position in the competition by spreading the sense of urgency to the entire upper layer.

Samsung’s steps represent a change in the entire sector. SK groupbrought back the company’s CEO meetings on Saturdays. Previously, CEO meetings took place once a month. It is also known that many companies want to at least gather their employees back into the office.

Although the technology market has not delivered the desired performance recently, new technologies such as artificial intelligence seem to have provided a new breakthrough. The fact that the company has switched to another alternative than just firing employees during this period is promising for Samsung.