Workplace reviews and discussion: 飛鳥國際旅行社有限公司

Supplementary details regarding the benefits system:

．Perfect attendance bonus: Yes, NT$1,000 per month. You can receive it as long as you are never late and do not forget to clock in or out.

．Labor and health insurance: Yes.

．Retirement contributions: Yes.

．Two-day weekends: Yes, but there is a very good chance that you will be asked to come to the office for training on weekends under the pretext of educational training, taught by a supervisor or the boss. If an employee informs them that they cannot attend because they have something else to do, they are also very likely to be questioned about it.

．Annual leave: Yes, in accordance with the Labor Standards Act. However, if you work in the business department, taking annual leave often draws the attention of senior management, for example, they may ask what you are going to do and whether you really need to take leave.

．Spring banquet activities: Yes. There is eating, drinking, and some activities after the Lunar New Year. The boss is quite generous when it comes to food.

．Employee dinners: Yes, although they are not held regularly—approximately once every quarter. The boss enjoys tasting good food, so they are generous about treating employees to meals.

．Film appreciation sessions: Yes, irregularly, approximately once or twice a year.

．Themed lectures: It is unclear what these are. They may be public lectures held for clients, with the company believing that employees can listen in while serving customers.

．Training: Fei Niao is well known in the travel industry for being “very good at providing training.” Friends in the travel agency industry have asked me whether this is really true, and I would say it is only half true.

The boss says that every supervisor in the company will teach openly without holding anything back. This is true: supervisors provide a great deal of training and explain the key points that employees should pay attention to.

However, among this “great deal of” training, some courses make you wonder whether senior management simply wants us to spend additional time continuously staying at the company, or whether the company believes that “training” is the only way to rescue performance. Some training is inefficient and consists of courses that employees have already heard countless times, yet senior management requires them to attend together with new employees. In some cases, the speaker spends most of the time not teaching but repeating “motivational lectures,” such as the attitude employees should have, the vision of the company taking off in the future, future trends, and changes in Taiwan’s overall environment.

In addition, most employees at the company get along well. There is generally little malicious exclusion or infighting, and employees often help one another.