TSMC sets aside NT$600 million for bonus with each employee to receive NT$8000

2024-06-24

TSMC made headlines last year when it gave every employee in Taiwan a special bonus of NT$16,000 for Sports Day. Now the world’s largest contract chipmaker is being creative again. Starting from July, every full-time worker can apply for an employee welfare bonus of NT$8,000, which could be used for travel, a child’s tuition, insurance, or even entertainment, and it could be used anywhere in the world.

TSMC is known for taking care of its employees, offering them great benefits. For example, the company’s cafeteria serves up everything from foreign cuisine to Taiwanese-style buffet options. Now it has announced that starting in July, full-time employees around the world can receive a flexible employee welfare bonus of NT$8,000 per year.

Member of the public
I’m so envious. NT$8,000?! I don’t even get NT$800! I bet the benefits they offer are much more generous than ours.

Member of the public
We are considered a small to medium-sized enterprise, so if we say we’d like to go abroad, our boss will subsidize the trip. Of course, I hope my children will work at TSMC. It pays a high salary, and I’d feel very proud.

TSMC hopes that in addition to using the NT$8,000 on medical insurance, family care or entertainment, its employees can also contribute to public welfare. However, with the seven-figure annual starting salary that TSMC employees receive, experts believe that the NT$8,000 would do little to boost morale, and the NT$600 million that the company has set aside for this undertaking is just a drop in the bucket in comparison to the company’s overall operations and investment expenditure.

Nobunaga Chai
Industrial economics analyst
If you work at the Dresden or Arizona facility, the simplest breakfast would probably cost 20 to 30 euros. Next to a TSMC income, a bonus of NT$8,000 would just be a morsel to nibble on. But what is more noteworthy in terms of TSMC’s costs is that the Hsinchu City government hopes TSMC, being a large company, can build employee dormitories, and that would raise its operating costs.

This expert warns that if the government wants a big tech company to help build employee housing, it would in fact be shirking its responsibility to build social housing.

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台積電砸6億元正職員工每人發8千元福利獎金

2024-06-24

護國神山台積電繼去年發放1.6萬獎金之後，現在又有新的創意作法，從7月開始，每名正職員工，可以申請8千塊的彈性福利獎金，不論是用在旅遊、小孩學費，或保險、甚至娛樂消費上都可以，而且全球通用，讓民眾聽了直呼羨慕。

從異國料理，到台式自助餐，台積電不只靠員工餐廳美食，照顧員工，更宣布7月開始，全球正職員工，每人每年，還有8千塊的彈性福利獎金。

[[民眾]]
“好羨慕，還有八千塊，我光八百塊都沒有，而且他們的福利一定也比我們來得更優渥”

[[民眾]]
“我們是算中小型企業，就是只要我們說要出國的話，我們老闆都會補助。當然希望小孩進台積電啊，高薪，然後應該會覺得很驕傲吧”

台積電希望員工不只拿來用在醫療保險、家庭照顧或娛樂上，也能響應公益。但台積科技新貴，年薪加分紅，動輒百萬起跳，專家認為，8千塊難以激勵士氣，而6億元的總支出，對公司營運和投資市場，也不會造成任何衝擊。

[[產經資深分析師柴煥欣]]
“德勒斯登，或者是亞利桑那州的廠，在那個地方的話，吃個最簡單的早餐，恐怕也是從20歐元到30歐元起跳，8千元的這樣子一個獎勵金，放在台積電的所得水準的話，僅能算是雞肋，但是其實更值得注意的是，最近在政府方面的話，希望類似像台積電的這樣子一個頂頭的大企業，能夠加蓋員工宿舍，這才會增加台積電的一個營運成本”

專家也示警，政府要科技大廠幫忙蓋社宅，責任錯位，恐怕才是真的，搬石頭、砸自己的腳。

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