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Read the community guidelines1. New employees receive more annual leave days during their first through third years than required by the Labor Standards Act.
2. A free health checkup is provided every year.
3. A NT$1,000 birthday bonus.
4. Annual salary adjustments (not guaranteed after the pandemic).
5. Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival bonuses (approximately 0.25 months’ salary before the pandemic; not guaranteed after the pandemic).
6. Year-end bonus usually equivalent to two months’ salary (not guaranteed after the pandemic).
1. The employment letter does not state a probationary period, but the signed employment contract specifies 40 days. After three months had passed, employees were informed that the probationary period was six months. After passing the probationary period, there will be no salary increase unless it was discussed in advance.
2. It is said to be a foreign company, but there are always people who do not speak English or cannot understand English well enough to get things done.
3. At every performance review meeting with the overseas parent company, management says there are not enough staff, yet the hiring process is extremely slow.
4. When a supervisor assigns something, you are expected to handle everything under the sun, regardless of whether that person is actually your direct supervisor.
5. During the pandemic, maintenance and servicing at government agencies, hospitals, and other locations with confirmed cases were not suspended. When employees asked whether maintenance could be paused, management said that anyone who did not want to go could take leave or resign.
6. During the pandemic, management repeatedly criticized employees who took public transportation to work, while not implementing a work-from-home policy. The proposed alternative was for employees to ride a YouBike to work.
7. During the pandemic, management and employees with families were allowed to work remotely from other locations. Employees without children who applied to work from home were rejected for allegedly failing to consider the company’s position, and taking leave would also invite gossip.
8. When negotiating a salary adjustment with a supervisor, requests are rejected for all kinds of reasons; alternatively, even after a salary increase is agreed upon, the actual adjustment may differ from the amount originally discussed.
9. Interdepartmental conflict is severe, and there are always people spreading gossip behind others’ backs.
10. It is, unmistakably, a Taiwanese company that has been in operation for nearly 30 years.