The working day in South Korea is one of the longest in the world: its citizens work an average of 500 hours more per year than Europeans. Public servants are still more difficult – they often spend more than ten hours at work. The mayor of Seoul has solved the problem radically: now at 7 p.m. every Friday, computers are simply turned off. Exceptions will be made only in special cases, but what exactly is not.

Interestingly, hard-working Korean officials have criticized the initiative and asked not to include them in the program of computers forced off, but their wishes are unlikely to be taken into account. It is not the first time the authorities are trying to reduce working hours and explain this by the need to increase the birth rate.

c) The Commercial