Workplace reviews and discussion: 點序科技股份有限公司

Freedom to take leave, no overtime

1. Assistants are required to write a daily work report every day, including the completion time of every task. Waiting time in between cannot be counted. How, then, is the work supposed to be quantified? If the quantified hours are too few, assistants are subjected to sarcastic remarks and assigned tasks far beyond their job responsibilities, for which there is no handover, simply to fill the hours in their reports. Their performance bonuses are also deducted because the quantified working hours are too few.

2. During performance evaluations, there is basically only one meeting per year to ask whether there are any work-related problems. For the rest, performance ratings are entirely based on the supervisor’s mood. Assistants may even have a large amount of their performance bonus inexplicably deducted because of the aforementioned “low number of working hours for administrative assistants.” There is no fair system whatsoever.

3. An administrative assistant’s job is to ensure on-time shipments and maintain reports. If there are no orders and therefore no shipping tasks for the assistant, they may still be criticized for having insufficient working hours and for lacking ambition, which then becomes a reason to deduct their performance bonus.

4. The department is extremely unfriendly toward pregnant employees and employees returning from maternity or parental leave. One colleague returned from maternity leave and was attacked by her supervisor, who said that anyone willing to return after having a child did so only because the job was so easy that they could not bear to give it up. This is workplace bullying.

5. Senior assistants who had held stable positions for more than five years have been resigning one after another. Everyone should carefully consider why senior assistants who have been employed for so long would want to leave.