Readers have expressed issues that the working situations in Vietnam are exhausting the youthful technology, calling for extra and longer holidays all year long to reinforce each bodily and psychological well-being.
“My husband and I are civil servants. We’re purported to have two days off on weekends, however in actuality, we nonetheless should work, leaving us with nearly no days off. My spouse works at a land registration workplace, and each night time she has to proceed unresolved work from the workplace. It’s actually tiring for us, and we are able to’t correctly handle our kids. We have to modernize and liberate human labor. If extra days off are granted however there’s nonetheless an excessive amount of work, laborers received’t be capable to actually relaxation,” shared reader Vu Hai Nam relating to the working hours in Vietnam.
Present labor legal guidelines stipulate that staff ought to work not more than 48 hours per week, permitting employers to require employees to place in at the very least six days per week, eight hours per day. Nevertheless, based on information from the Worldwide Labor Group (ILO), Vietnam ranks among the many nations with the best working hours globally. In 2023, the entire working hours in Vietnam (excluding holidays) reached 2,320 hours—440 hours greater than Indonesia, 184 hours greater than Cambodia, and 176 hours greater than Singapore.
Commenting on the pressures confronted by Vietnamese employees, reader Hung Minh stated: “Greater than a decade in the past, once I was single, I used to work 14 hours a day, together with Saturdays. I used to be younger and enthusiastic, so I labored rather a lot and earned rather a lot. However once I began a household and had youngsters, I needed to say goodbye to that work depth.”
Reader Mirae added, “Folks typically cite low labor productiveness in Vietnam as a purpose in opposition to decreasing working hours. However having labored with corporations in Japan, Italy, and Korea, I’ve discovered that growing labor productiveness depends closely on automation, not longer working hours. Nobody needs to work as much as 12 hours a day.”
Reader Vu famous, “Workplace employees like me really work past workplace hours. Even once I go to bathe, I’ve to take my telephone to reply to potential work messages. Telephone alerts have grow to be a supply of stress for me, and deadlines are overflowing. Apart from, every employee these days wants to seek out time to improve their expertise to remain aggressive. We’re in a interval the place younger individuals are bodily and mentally exhausted. It’s essential for administration businesses to conduct systematic and complete analysis to enhance the working setting.”
Reader Child expressed frustration, saying, “I discover it laborious to know some folks’s argument that Vietnamese should work extra to flee poverty. They fail to know that revenue is instantly proportional to labor productiveness, and productiveness is tremendously influenced by bodily and psychological well being. The one manner to enhance these components is to offer employees extra relaxation time. The variety of holidays in Vietnam is at present among the many lowest within the area and the world, far behind nations like Japan, Korea, and Germany, leading to one of many highest numbers of working days. I strongly help the concept of extra holidays. Ideally, there needs to be a trip of a couple of week each three months, which might stimulate demand and provides employees time to recuperate, finally boosting labor productiveness.”
