Workplace reviews and discussion: 工研院 _財團法人工業技術研究院

Stable work, a comfortable environment, and so much leave that you can never use it all—well suited for taking it easy until retirement.

If you get into a good unit with a good supervisor, it is basically heaven, but there are not many of them.

People with PhDs or higher qualifications receive more respect; those with master's or doctoral degrees can focus on research here.

All benefits are intended for regular employees, but currently a large number of contractors are being hired to do the same work as regular employees and take on the same responsibilities, while receiving pitifully low pay. Their leave is also limited to what is required by the Labor Standards Act. It is very common for senior employees to oppress newcomers, treating contractors as if they were not people and viewing them as outsiders rather than part of the Industrial Technology Research Institute.

In addition, just like in government agencies, many regular employees are simply coasting until retirement, so they do little work and little management. There are also many parachuted-in appointees who use their authority to force their own people into regular positions...