12 hours per week or more of extended overtime in the manufacturing sector is taking place at a higher rate in small- and medium-sized companies (35.7~50.0%) compared to large companies (33.3%).
In general, overtime is occurring mainly where there are teams working on a shift basis (48.7%); and in terms of work type, parts processing work (41.6%) and the work that includes quality management and quality inspection (48.2%) have a high occurrence of overtime.
Long hours of overtime are found among work teams in companies with a labor union (45.1%) than companies without a labor union (37.3%), in companies with standalone automated field equipment or semi-automated field equipment (55.0% and 41.7%, respectively) than those in companies with manual field equipment (27.6%).
The practice of long hours of overtime work in the manufacturing sector has negative effects on the overall work attitude of workers and is causing increased idle time during work hours. As much as 20.1% responded that idle time makes up more than 10% of the entire work hours.