‘Got Nothing but Money’─ An Examination of Overtime and Karoshi in Taiwan High-Tech Industry
碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 102 === A death of an engineer in Nanya Technology Corporation aroused tremendous attention to the issues of overtime working. It was said that the engineer had to work 13 to 19 hours per day and would be assigned to work even on holidays. He was then found at his desk, l...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24742196204749128984 |
| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 102 === A death of an engineer in Nanya Technology Corporation aroused tremendous attention to the issues of overtime working. It was said that the engineer had to work 13 to 19 hours per day and would be assigned to work even on holidays. He was then found at his desk, lying on his unfinished documents, dead.
Overtime and karoshi happen frequently in Taiwan high tech industry and is no longer unfamiliar to its related members. The idea of ‘working overtime for gaining more payment’ is well accepted by most engineers. This depth reporting gathered interviews of 13 high tech engineers, 6 students from the institute of technology and 4 supervisors in related filed to point out controversial issues in the ways of living in high tech industry.
This depth reporting focused on several viewpoints: (1) the lacking of innovation in education (2) phenomenon of high payment but low living qualities (3) the distortion to the definition of working (4) drawbacks caused by servility (5) the inner problems of high tech industry. Without being contradictive, these viewpoints complement each other to bring out the matters of industrial structure problems and the limitation caused by social ideology.
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