Workplace reviews and discussion: 津橋管理顧問有限公司

The company is very close to the MRT station—almost right outside the exit. The office environment is fairly good as well, and most of the colleagues are young, so the atmosphere is not very tense. The boss also gives employees a great deal of flexibility to make use of their abilities at work. The company culture tends to revolve around eating, drinking, and having fun together. Drinks are ordered from time to time, and there is also cake on employees’ birthdays.

There are no bonuses for the three major holidays or year-end bonuses (at least I did not receive any during my time there, and when I asked other colleagues privately, they had not received any either).

The boss has many so-called "innovative" ideas. Whenever an idea comes up, employees are expected to implement it, regardless of whether its feasibility has been carefully evaluated or whether employees’ existing workloads have been taken into account. Simply put, the scope and volume of work may increase at any time. The company has an overtime culture, and basically there is no overtime pay. Instead, employees are given compensatory leave. However, staying late to handle company matters does not automatically count as overtime; there are rules requiring the overtime work to meet certain criteria before it can be applied for.....

The company’s formalism is very apparent. There are frequent meetings of all kinds, and employees are also required to regularly share soft-topic presentations and work reflections every month. In addition, colleagues are sometimes assigned to groups to produce a monthly newsletter (content unrelated to work, purely for internal employees’ amusement). These so-called "formalities" consume a great deal of your working time....