Written by the editorial team of Today Weekly
A banquet between business owners and President Xiaoying revealed the most urgent “three deficiencies” of the manufacturing leaders!
At the end of February, at 12 noon, in the Taiwan Rainbow Hall on the third floor of the Presidential Palace, 18 industry professionals and the President held a low-key luncheon.
During the luncheon, Mr. Shen Guorong, Senior Minister of the Presidential Office and Chairman of Heda Industry, Mr. Lai Bosi, Chairman of the Republic of China Industrial Zone Manufacturers Association and Chairman of Miaocheng Enterprise, Mr. Wei Canwen, Chairman of Taiwan Machinery Industry Association and Chairman of Fengji International Machinery , as well as the chairman of the Taiwan Machine Tool and Components Association, and the chairman of Haber Precision Xu Wenxian, many important manufacturing bosses appeared one by one.
Can’t keep up with the speed of land soaring
Tucheng in Xinbei is 1 million per square meter, and most of the central and southern regions start at 400,000
What business owners say is not the hidden worries of stable supply of water and electricity…,The “three shortages” of lack of land, lack of work, and lack of dormitory have become the focus of the first family’s meeting with the president.
“The land in the north is too expensive. One million yuan per square meter of Tucheng in New Taipei City. Just kidding, how do you build a factory?” Wei Canwen bluntly said that the industrial land near Taichung has also increased too much and there is no land. It is unreasonable to use more than 300,000 yuan per square meter. , the company had no choice but to move farther to find land in Changhua, Yunlin, and Chiayi, but the transportation and manpower supply were not very convenient.
“There is no factory that does not lack workers these days, unless you have no business!” In his tone, Zhuo Yongcai, President of Shanghai Bank Group, couldn’t hide his excitement.
In particular, the government encourages investment in Taiwan, and the demand for manpower is even greater. “Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is too strong, attracting all talents, causing other industries to find talents. The lack of labor is a very serious and common phenomenon, and it is already a national security crisis.” Wei Can Wenyu Seriously.
Enterprises are divided into multiple ways to make up for the lack of workers
Referral of migrant workers, dispatched workers, industry-university cooperation and middle-aged and elderly employees
The first way for companies lacking jobs to find a source of labor is to quickly find an agency to introduce migrant workers who want to change jobs, so that the agency of foreign migrant workers has become the most sturdy owner recently.
The second way to source manpower is to find dispatch workers from Taiwan, or even make dispatch workers regular jobs, but bosses generally believe that dispatch workers with high mobility are not easy to use.
The third way is industry-university cooperation, starting from universities to bind talents, but each company will rob people, and the number of people that can be absorbed by this channel is quite limited.
The use of middle-aged and elderly employees is the fourth way of manpower sources. “We started recruiting talents of no age limit last year, as long as you have good hands and feet, we will also bring back those who retired over the age of 60.” He said bluntly with the general manager Chen Yuehuang.
“Everyone thinks about the source of manpower,” Shen Guorong revealed. Another source is the “prison workers” who have performed well and are about to be released from prison. In the early morning, the instructors bring 5, 8, 10, and at most 20 prisoners to work, and the manufacturer will take them out to work. If they are in charge of lunch, they must also set up an independent workplace for them to work, and they are not allowed to communicate with other people. They will leave in the original car at 5 pm. “Prison workers are very sensitive to foreign manufacturers. Foreign manufacturers who use cheap labor to sell things abroad will protest. They can only introduce them to third-party factories, not for export.”
Shen Guorong pointed out that Heda will build a new factory in May this year. In addition to the absolute necessity of 10% automation, the factory building must be spacious, air conditioning and exhaust must be in place, and it is very comfortable to enter, so everyone will like to work there. We pick workers, and now workers pick companies.”
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“Taiwan will endure for another 5 to 10 years at most, and the shortage of manpower will be very serious!” Shen Guorong’s concern is not an isolated case. In fact, the labor shortage in Taiwan has undoubtedly raised a red alert.
“After the first day of the Lunar New Year, we had 43,000 companies registered for talent recruitment information,” Zhong Wenxiong, head of information technology at 104, explained the figure. Nearly 50,000, and the previous record was 42,000. This year is an unprecedented and unprecedented prosperity, which means that the company can’t find anyone.”
Not only that, but this year is also the first time he has clearly felt the decline in the kinetic energy of young people taking the initiative to apply. Looking at the 104 data, the young people under the age of 30, who have always been the main source of the labor force, accounted for more than half of the 52.3% who volunteered in February 2018. Unexpectedly, it declined year by year, and only 43.4% remained in February this year. %.
To a certain extent, this may also be related to the fact that young people in Taiwan do not want to be managed by others, and are unwilling to continue to be a life-threatening enterprise for enterprises. They would rather go to delivery platforms and engage in flexible, free, and autonomous work. Statistics from the Occupational Safety Administration of the Ministry of Labor show that the number of food delivery workers in 2020 will reach 87,618, an annual increase of 94.7%. The latest number at the beginning of this year has reached more than 120,000 people. The trend of young people’s changing work values cannot be overemphasized. metaphor. For more content, please refer to the latest issue of Today Weekly (No. 1320)
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