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There is not much performance pressure, management is lax, and taking leave is easy.
Sales staff are paid the statutory minimum base salary, with no reimbursement for fuel, parking, or National Freeway ETC fees; there are four meaningless, lengthy sales meetings every week. Except for Wednesday, sales meetings are held every morning on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. To put it bluntly, these sales meetings are just “reading work logs” and reporting performance—lengthy, meaningless, and lacking any focus or conclusions; the company forcibly spreads sales performance recognition over time. For example, if a client makes a one-time payment of NT$250,000 and the advertising period is one year, the company requires the NT$250,000 performance amount to be divided over 12 months, rather than recognizing it in the month payment is received or the campaign is completed. The company claims this is to prevent problems with sales performance calculations if a client breaches the contract and cancels early, but in reality it is an indirect way of exploiting the sales staff; Deputy General Manager Chen of the sales department has long been out of touch with the current market environment, is unable to lead the sales department, and cannot provide any constructive advice; sales staff must submit their advertising clients’ performance figures for the current month every month themselves. If they do not submit them, they will not be paid, and salary statements are not sent proactively either—sales staff often have to request them from the company before they are provided.