Home&Shopping Selected as a 'Family-Friendly Certified Company'... Recognized for Work-Family Balance Corporate Culture

Establishing Corporate Culture with Flexible Work Systems and Early Leave Policies

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] Home&Shopping (CEO Kim Ok-chan) announced on the 18th that it has been selected as a '2020 Family-Friendly Certified Company' by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family. The Family-Friendly Certification System is a program that grants certification through the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family's evaluation to companies and public institutions that exemplary operate family-friendly systems such as support for childbirth and child-rearing, flexible working hours, and the creation of a family-friendly workplace culture.

Home&Shopping received high recognition for its efforts to balance work and family life through ▲flexible working hours ▲early leave system ▲childcare working hours reduction system plus, earning this certification. The flexible working hours system is a policy that allows the use of staggered commuting hours and flexible working hours without a reduction in wages. Additionally, Home&Shopping implements the early leave system with 'Smile Day,' where employees leave work at 5 PM from the first week to the penultimate Friday of each month, and 'Smile Day Plus,' where employees leave at 4 PM on the last Friday of each month, encouraging employees to spend weekends with their families.

The childcare working hours reduction system plus is a welfare program unique to Home&Shopping, enhancing the existing government policy of childcare working hours reduction. The childcare working hours reduction system allows full-time workers with children aged up to 8 years old or in the second grade of elementary school or below to reduce their working hours to between 15 and 35 hours per week instead of taking childcare leave, with national support funds provided for up to two years. Home&Shopping's childcare working hours reduction system plus extends the support period up to three years and provides compensation considering the period and salary even in the third year without national support funds.

In addition, Home&Shopping operates welfare programs such as ▲support programs for pregnant women ▲health checkups (including one family member) ▲tuition support ▲support for preschool children ▲housing interest support. A Home&Shopping official stated, "This family-friendly certification selection is a result created through the joint efforts of our employees," and added, "We will continue to strive to establish a corporate culture balanced between work and life and to create a family-friendly workplace culture so that employees can be happy both at work and at home."

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