China News Service, Taipei, December 6. According to the "Year-end Bonus Distribution and End-of-Year Plan Survey" released by Yes123 Jobs.com on the 6th, 76.7% of Taiwanese companies will issue year-end bonuses, which is slightly higher than last year's 74.8%.
The average year-end bonus base was 1.17 months, the second lowest in six years, a slight increase of 0.06 months from last year.
According to reports from Taiwanese media such as "United Daily News", "Economic Daily News", Yahoo Qimo, etc., there is a large gap in the base number of year-end awards in different industries.
The survey shows that industries with a low base of year-end awards include catering and accommodation and leisure tourism (0.5 months), culture and education (0.63 months), and people's livelihood services (0.78 months).
The above-mentioned industries have been greatly affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Some companies are still laying off employees and implementing unpaid leave. They even need to be rescued to maintain their operations. The year-end bonus is bound to be lower.
In contrast, finance, insurance and accounting statistics (2.67 months), technology and information industry (2 months), traditional manufacturing (1.73 months), transportation, logistics and warehousing (1.67 months), medical care and biotechnology Industry (1.63 months) and other industries benefited from epidemic prevention business opportunities, contactless economy, urgent order effects and other factors, and the year-end bonuses for relevant personnel will be increased.
Yang Zongbin, spokesperson for Yes123 Jobs.com, said that the gap in the base of year-end awards for different industries is up to 2 months.
On the whole, the base of the year-end bonus has shown a “weak rebound” compared to last year.
The investigation on the same day also explained the situation of Taiwanese companies holding "tail teeth".
"End Ya" is a traditional festival in Fujian and Taiwan.
In traditional customs, merchants will prepare sacrifices on the second and sixteenth day of the lunar calendar in order to make business prosperous. After the ceremony, everyone eats the sacrifices together, which is called the "slaying the tooth sacrifice."
Every year, December 16 of the lunar calendar is the last "dental period", that is, the "tail tooth"; now, many Taiwanese companies choose to hold company annual meetings on this day.
According to the survey, 64% of enterprises this year have “tail teeth” plans, up from 55.9% in 2020, which is the second lowest in nine years; in addition, 17% of enterprises plan to cut “tail teeth” budgets.
Among the companies that plan to hold the "End Tooth", 16.6% of the companies estimate that the "End Tooth" budget will be reduced, and 63.7% of the companies' estimated budget will be the same as in 2020.
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