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Taiwanese business management
1. Mobile phone location tracking and point-to-point clock-ins. If you move too quickly, you'll be accused of not working. You set your own short time intervals to get to clients, and if you move too quickly, prepare to work yourself to death.
2. There will be so many different reports that you'll no longer be an external staff member. That's why they particularly emphasize the NT$10,000 allowance for writing reports, but in practice, you'll have to write them during your off-hours.
3. An overwhelming number of mobile messages, with everyone competing to see whose is more urgent.
4. You must remain on standby on your phone until 10 p.m.; the company conducts spot checks at any time.