The ministry and the Korea Labor Foundation hosted the first "2026 Workplace Innovation Case-Sharing Forum" at 2 p.m. in an event hall at POSCO Tower Yeoksam in Seoul's Gangnam district. Company labor and management representatives, academic experts and consultants attended to discuss ways to advance workplace innovation.
The forum series is scheduled to run eight times from April through November, with different themes, and is open to the public.
At the first session, the ministry introduced the case of advertising agency MTRE INC, which adopted a policy allowing employees to leave work two hours early every Friday and cut its turnover rate to 11% from 63%. It also shared the case of Kolon Biotech, which increased its workforce by 13% after introducing flexible work arrangements tailored by job type, including a selective working-hours system.
Cho Chung-hyun, the ministry's director general for labor-management cooperation policy, said the cases showed that "when labor and management put their heads together and join innovation, they can turn a crisis into an opportunity." He said the government will continue supporting companies so a culture of labor-management cooperation and workplace innovation can take root across workplaces.
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