Companies are planning to hire thousands of workers following the adoption of the 52-hour maximum working week in July.<br /> According to the Labor Ministry’s field study conducted in August on some three-thousand five-hundred companies, twenty-six-point-three percent were planning to add more jobs, creating a total of forty-three-thousand new positions.<br />That number is almost double what was found in a previous field study conducted ahead of the introduction of the new maximum working hours. <br />The field study has also found that about 200 companies have also adopted flexible working hours.<br />The study was conducted about a month after the new 52-hour maximum working week was implemented to find out how companies are reacting to the shortened maximum working hours. <br />
