Workplace reviews and discussion: 丹意企業股份有限公司
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Working at the 101 store, the environment is comfortable. The company seems to have a well-established system, and the training sounds quite thorough, which should be helpful for developing sales skills, as well as a sense of aesthetics and taste. The products sold are imported European furniture and audio equipment. They are high-priced, allowing employees to interact with people at the top of the pyramid.
Store sales staff have to take shifts watching the store and also develop designer channels, while the base salary is only NT$23,000. The performance bonuses are low considering the selling prices of the products: 5% for furniture and 2.5% for audio equipment. The company’s top salesperson generates NT$24 million in sales a year. Assuming furniture and audio equipment each account for half, and using an average bonus rate of about 3.75%, that comes to roughly NT$900,000 in bonuses, or about NT$1.2 million including the base salary. Even experienced top salespeople who also serve as store managers earn no more than this. It is easy to imagine what most store sales staff earn—probably around NT$600,000–800,000. At this level, one could easily find another sales job that would be much less demanding, unless one has a strong interest in their products.