Workplace reviews and discussion: 富堡工業股份有限公司

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Fuburg Industrial originally manufactured sanitary pads, but its main products are now adult diapers. The owner is the second-generation successor. He has strong ideals and wants to expand the market, but he is stubborn and not very receptive to subordinates’ opinions. He also does not view employees as company assets and demands cost reductions in everything. The planned new product developments are numerous and disorganized. Compared with the past, the brand no longer has much recognition or awareness, yet the company does not value brand marketing. Often, the owner only asks us to follow after seeing a major brand launch a new product, by which time it is already too late.

Senior employees in the company often rely on their seniority and shirk responsibility. Even when the owner knows about it, he does not deal with it, possibly because of a previous labor dispute: https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20140521000407-260106

There is also a lot of infighting, rudeness, and gossip among people who have nothing better to do.

People in the company, from the chairman and general manager to frontline employees, are not united enough. Managers lack commitment and do not know how to foster employee cohesion.

Both subordinates and the owner have an attitude of “the less trouble, the better.” Salaries are low, and there is no year-end bonus.