Workplace reviews and discussion: 50% Fifty Percent_匯姿股份有限公司

One of the most exploitative companies the writer has ever worked for.

If you work in the Development Department, you often need to travel for work.

You only get compensatory leave after traveling for 12 hours, and even then, you only get a tiny amount. There are all kinds of violations of the Labor Standards Act.

Head-office internal staff receive no bonuses whatsoever.

This company includes meal allowances and perfect-attendance bonuses in the base salary.

The writer often traveled for work until 11 p.m. or 1 a.m.

There is no overtime pay whatsoever. Employees are told they receive NT$3,000 per month, but they have to pay NT$2,000 themselves for the company to subsidize only NT$1,000 (you pay NT$2,000 yourself, the company contributes NT$1,000, giving you NT$3,000 to spend).

Salary adjustments are negligible. I genuinely do not recommend working here—even for the sake of work experience. For internal staff, the only benefits are air conditioning at work and extremely relaxed dress-code policies.

The Development Department often has to stop working midway to go downstairs and move various display props, mannequins, and heavy items.

Business trips offer no real benefits; the only meal allowance is NT$200 per day.

However, when traveling to work as a store clerk, the weather is hot and the work is exhausting. You usually have to buy drinks along with a boxed meal, so the cost of lunch and dinner for one day exceeds the allowance.

The allowance is nowhere near enough when traveling to department stores. If there is nowhere to eat nearby, you can only eat at the department store, which costs at least NT$300 more per day for two meals—a major financial loss.

In short, I strongly advise against staying here for long, and I especially do not recommend working in the Development Department, where you will be exploited as an extremely low-paid worker.

After the probation period, the salary is adjusted to just over NT$27,000. On weekdays, overtime is frequent, and one meeting even lasted until 11 p.m.

Internal staff regularly travel to stores on weekdays and work 12-hour shifts (on average, there are 5–7 business-trip days per month).

When things are busy on weekdays, overtime is basically one to two hours.

They claim it is a responsibility-based work system, but it is blatantly illegal.

The boss sometimes buys food to comfort employees, including during overtime and occasional afternoon tea. Do not take it too seriously: by buying that food, the boss saves a pile of overtime pay and is really making a huge profit.

The year-end bonus is reportedly only one month’s salary (it can only be collected in March each year). So far, I only know that there is a small red envelope for Lunar New Year’s Eve, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars (new employees receive only NT$600). Other than that, there is only around NT$2,000 in bonuses from the spring banquet and prize money from the spring-banquet singing competition.

To recover overtime pay, employees can only consider pursuing mediation.

Everything has already been written in the work-experience section.

You can indeed learn a little, but not much. The apparel industry seems to be quite exploitative across the board.

I would recommend that store employees look for jobs with a better base salary.

This company’s performance targets seem to be very high. Some flagship stores have monthly targets of NT$6 million, while the other stores probably exceed NT$2 million as well.

In short, even after receiving performance bonuses, the total salary is only NT$35,000.

I really do not recommend working here.

I recommend the internal positions even less; employees are treated like the lowest class and exploited at every level.

At work, the only benefits are the extremely broad freedom of dress—whether you want to dress like a party girl, dye your hair red, yellow, blue, or green, dress in an artsy style, or wear backless tops, crop tops, or hot pants—and air conditioning. (Smokers may request two or three smoking breaks per day, three to five minutes each.) There are no other benefits.

I also do not recommend buying too many employee-purchase items during your employment, because the salary is meager. If you want to experience working here, I suggest resigning within three or six months. If you stay beyond that period, you may feel that you have to wait until you receive the year-end bonus before leaving, but I do not recommend wasting time working here.

The turnover rate here is also extremely high. The low wages are really just used to lure young, inexperienced newcomers into joining.