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Study: Fewer Working Hours Propel Pregnancy Intentions Among Koreans

stop-population-decline.ghost.io Study: Fewer Working Hours Propel Pregnancy Intentions Among Koreans

A study from South Korea digs into the correlation between pregnancy intentions and critical characteristics of childbearing-age women, spanning age, income, employment, occupation, weekly work hours, education level, and location.

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Who knew that working people less means they have time to have kids?
- It's always amazing to see study after study confirming totally obvious relationships yet policy makers and corporations still choose to ignore all of it.
  
  Who cares that they will have 20% fewer workers in 2+ decades when you could have 2% more profit this year?
  
  And yet corporations rely heavily on their shill research study findings to advertise
- After millenia of human civilization, it took Big Data and AI to finally lead us to this answer/s
  
  It really wouldn't be an issue if workplace sex was easily possible. If you spend the whole day there you might at least multitask and make new workers while inputting data into Excel.

Hoping Japan is paying attention
- Well considering I saw another post talking about investing in AI and UBI, one can hope.

Oh wow, who woulda thunk it? People working less is good for them? Damn, I need to get out more.

Haven't they just increased max working hours?
- The 69 hours a week bill got defeated. Apparently someone suggested 69 as a way of getting more babies, and the PM was like "hours of work a week? Deal!"
  
  I hope you're not joking, that's hilarious

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