There is a wind in the domestic pharmaceutical industry, a "work and life balance" that balances work and life. However, there is a point of being called work and life balance which is still so sickening.

According to the pharmaceutical industry on March 7, J Group, which has a lot of night shifts, made a day off every Wednesday every Wednesday in 2012, but employees were unable to leave work on time. The company cut off the electricity from the building and turned off the lights, but it was the back door that carried the laptop over to the nearby café carrying the laptop PC. The L group also turns off the building lights at about 7 pm, but it just goes back to the formal procedure. It is for the purpose of leaving on time but it is only a demonstration.

Some point out that the GPS system introduced by some pharmaceutical companies in order to identify the position of salespeople is human rights violation beyond simple labor surveillance. The location information is transmitted from time to time through the company`s paid tablet PC. In particular, recently, a salesperson of a company Y was reported to the personnel committee after reporting a customer with a GPS operation app, and it was argued that the company had to schedule a visit to the customer as a standard to overhaul the structural problem. It is argued that it is difficult to actualize the schedule of forcing a customer to visit 60 suppliers per sales agent four times a month.

In case of Company C, the other salesperson filled the position of the salesperson who took parental leave, but the employee who had filled the position after the childparental leave was completed recently had to quit. It was reported that the salesperson who gave parental leave had the highest level of performance in the whole country, so the company was forced to retire to another employee.

Besides, most of the work hours are 9 to 6 at 9 o`clock, but meetings or monthly inquiries are held at 7 o`clock in the morning, or most of the rest of the pharmaceutical companies are fixed in the first week of August. There is a culture in which it is difficult to freely write long term vacations.

The operation of childcare centers for childcare support is also rarely spreading. Currently, Daewoong Pharma, HuynSus, and GC Green Cross are the only ones operating daycare centers in the pharmaceutical industry. According to the Infant and Child Care Law, if a workplace employs more than 300 female workers or more than 500 full-time workers at all times, the employer has to compulsorily operate a daycare center, but excludes a group of employees who work outside the workforce from regular workers, We are avoiding our obligations.

An expert from the pharmaceutical industry said, "Although the pharmaceutical industry is also expanding its welfare system, it is not easy to change because there are many conservative areas as long as it has a long history." It is necessary to improve the culture. "


By Kim Ji Seob cloud50@


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