Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣日立股份有限公司

1. Complies with the Labor Standards Act. Although this means only meeting the minimum requirements, adjustments are made appropriately as the law is amended.

(Some people with a strong subservient mentality voluntarily work unpaid overtime and even feel proud of it, so please do not be influenced by them.)

2. Business performance has been good in recent years, and the company is quite generous with bonuses.

(The systems have been changing since Johnson Controls came in; it is still unclear whether bonuses will be affected.)

1. Compared with actually getting work done, a lot of time is spent on communication, resulting in invisible waste of resources and putting the cart before the horse.

(There are too many gray areas in the division of authority and responsibility. Meetings never seem to end, squeezing the time available for actual work, so overtime is the only way to catch up.)

2. Although it is not explicitly stated, overtime is one of the factors considered in performance evaluations.

3. It is impossible to delve deeply into technical work: one reason is that there are too many miscellaneous tasks and not enough time, and another is that explaining things that superiors cannot understand will get you harshly criticized.

4. As the saying goes: When a problem arises, instead of solving the problem first, they solve the person who raised it first.

5. Since Johnson Controls came in, the foreign-language advantage has gradually shifted from Japanese to English. Anyone wanting to join should ideally know both.

6. The company dormitory is inexpensive, but four people share a room, and occasionally the smell of cigarettes or pan-fried fish drifts out.