Editing Working time (section)

====Businesses and related organizations====
Generally, business sector agrees that it is important to achieve [[work–life balance]], but does not support a legislation to regulate working hours limit. They{{Who|date=March 2022}} believe "standard working hours" is not the best way to achieve work–life balance and the root cause of the long working hours in Hong Kong is due to insufficient labor supply. The managing director of Century Environmental Services Group, Catherine Yan, said "Employees may want to work more to obtain a higher salary due to financial reasons. If standard working hour legislation is passed, employers will need to pay a higher salary to employees, and hence the employers may choose to segment work tasks to employer more part time employees instead of providing overtime pay to employees." She thinks this will lead to a situation that the employees may need to find two part-time jobs to earn their living, making them wasting more time on transportation from one job to another.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130215141525/http://stock.appledaily.com/News/Detail?articleId=18035110&issueId=20121008&backpage=2 {{in lang|zh}} 大失預算-最低工資曾衝擊業界] 港股王 – 蘋果日報，2012-10-08</ref>

The Chairman of the [[Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce]], [[Chow Chung-kong]] believes that it is so difficult to implement standard working hours that apply "across-the-board", specifically, to accountants and barristers.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1056078/chamber-chief-suggests-labour-import Chamber chief suggests labor import] SCMP, 2012-10-08</ref> In addition, he believes that standard working hours may decrease individual employees' working hours and would not increase their actual income. It may also lead to an increase of number of part-timers in the labor market.

According to a study conducted jointly by the Business, Economic and Public Affairs Research Centre and Enterprise and Social Development Research Centre of Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 16% surveyed companies believe that a standard working hours policy can be considered, and 55% surveyed think that it would be difficult to implement standard working hours in businesses.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1096048/warning-standard-working-hours-could-derail-hong-kongs-economy {{in lang|zh}}Investigate choices beyond standard working hours] Shu-kam Lee, Cho-yiu Ng, retrieved on 2012-11-30</ref>

Employer representative in the Labour Advisory Board, Stanley Lau, said that standard working hours will completely alter the business environment of Hong Kong, affect [[small and medium enterprise]] and weaken competitiveness of businesses. He believes that the government can encourage employers to pay overtime salary, and there is no need to regulate standard working hours.<ref>[http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1096048/warning-standard-working-hours-could-derail-hong-kongs-economyStandard working hours could derail Hong Kong's economy, warns government adviser] SCMP, 2012-12-03</ref>