China News Agency, Taipei, April 22. A workplace survey released by a Taiwanese agency on the 22nd showed that as many as 71.6% of the workers surveyed said they had experienced "workplace bullying", 45% had experienced gender discrimination, and more than half had experienced academic prejudice.

　　According to reports from Taiwanese media such as United News and the Central News Agency, on the eve of the "May 1st" International Labor Day, yes123 Job Search conducted a survey on Taiwanese workers.

The survey pointed out that in addition to "physical harm", respondents also feared "psychological harm", that is, cold violence in the workplace.

　　In the face of "workplace bullying", the attitude of office workers is "to endure silently" (50.7%), followed by "find a way to fight back after the fact" (34%), and 15.3% of the respondents "to fight back in person".

　　The survey found that more than half of the workers encountered "workplace sexual harassment (verbal and physical)" during their employment and job search.

By gender, 73% were women and 32.1% were men.

As for the attitude towards handling after being harassed, most respondents chose to "express dissatisfaction afterwards" (40.9%), and 36.4% "express dissatisfaction face to face".

　　Fifty-four percent of workers believe that the nature of their work is a "clock-in system and a responsibility system for leaving get off work".

Respondents estimated that on average, they worked 2.3 days of overtime per week; 16 percent said they "get off work almost every night".

The survey also found that on working days, nearly 85% of workers believe that they do not have enough sleep, nearly 50% do not maintain normal three meals, and one third “do not have time to exercise”.

　　Looking back on the past year, nearly 80% of the workers revealed that they had “worked overtime without pay”, and received an average of 5,144 yuan (NTD, the same below) in overtime pay per month; Overtime pay is more than 10,000 yuan.

According to an estimate of 9.144 million "all employed persons" in Taiwan, there are 7.15 million workers who are potentially owed overtime pay.

　　Yang Zongbin, a spokesman for the yes123 job search network, said that what is commonly known in the society as "responsible work" is clearly defined in Taiwan's "Labor Base Law".

However, the interpretation of the survey found that many workers have become victims of "abuse of responsibility system"; some workers are in the gray area identified by working hours.

　　According to reports, a total of 1,278 valid questionnaires were recovered, including 644 males and 634 females, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.74%.

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