TAIWAN HR STRUGGLING WITH TALENT RETENTION AMID POOR WORK-LIFE BALANCE
December 1st, 2016
HR managers in Taiwan are being forced to review their working hours and holiday strategy as young professionals seek more work-life balance than their older peers. East Asian employees are known for their extreme diligence, with those in Taiwan, for example, on average toiling away for 2,134 work hours a year, compared to the average for Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) member states of 1,771 hours. It is often the highly-educated young professionals who do no longer put up with this, posing a challenge to the island’s HR ...
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