SEOUL, KOREA- The average daily work hours of salaried employees has been shortened by 40 minutes compared to five years ago.Korean job portal Job Korea conducted a survey with 1,082 salaried office workers during the period from July 3 to 9 with respect to their average daily work hours.

The survey showed that their daily work hours averaged at 9 hours and 26 minutes, about 40 minutes shorter than five years ago when the average daily work hours stood at 10 hours and 6 minutes. This, however, is still longer than the legal work hours of 8 hours.

By corporate size, the work hours at large companies stood at 9 hours and 40 minutes a day, longer than small- and medium-sized companies' 9 hours and 29 minutes, state-run enterprises' 8 hours and 53 minutes, and foreign-invested companies' 8 hours and 46 minutes.

By work type, R&D workers turned out to have the longest daily work hours of 10 hours and 29 minutes, followed by production and technical workers (9:49), marketing and sales (8:25), designers (9:24), finance and accounting (9:15), IT (8:50), advertising and PR (8:42) and planning (8:18).