Oh, I know. Over the years we’ve increased the number of international students quite a bit. But this thread has made me realize that other universities have apparently increased that number significantly more.
Yeah, we’re going seriously OT. So, my last post related to overseas students.
They enliven lessons because the Taiwanese students become more lively. It’s incredible to observe as a teacher, but usually shy Taiwanese students suddenly start to get involved.
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Taiwan workforce relations is all about control.
Confucian hierarchies and a love of rote learning, paper qualifications and process.
If there is one great outcome from COVID, for many of us, it is that even future work, when things return to normal, will never go back to the way it was. In other words, it has impacted the future of work. Employers, in many locales, have seen things can still be done at home, that money can be saved on office real estate, and that productivity even increases. Workers love the savings on clothes, hygiene products, transport, etc. In a lot of countries, people are really thinking about relocating to hinterland areas where living is cheaper.
In my own circumstances, I have WFH now for 14 months.
When normal does return at the end of this year or slightly before, I will likely work outside of the nearest big city hub WFH two to three days a week. Maybe into the office 1 or 2 days a week. Even after COVID is past tense.
If this is prolonged in Taiwan, do you see work ever becoming that trust and outcome based? It would mean losing control in a society with no unions, where a lot of folk at the worker bee level are gormless to the extreme. Where asshats remain in the office until 9pm and are passive like eunuchs.
My guess-- fuck no. Taiwan SME bosses, even with cases going up, will retain to the old methods, and it could have high costs.
Taiwan, Vietnam and other quasi authoritarian countries did a great job in using that centralism to get on top of it early. But if cases rise and remain, will they adopt and change in workforce relations? Snowballs chance in hell.
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Joy, my home is slap bang in the middle of one plague zone. My work, another.
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Yeah. The overseas students are WAY more talkative and participatory than the Taiwanese.
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Three day quarantine . Can only blame the government for a failed quarantine policy with a hole as big as the grand canyon ripping through it.
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I guess it depends what you mean by “many”. I can believe that some are, but no idea what percentage of the workforce they account for.
That did not work out very well, did it.
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my works not work from yet. I’m surprised. Seems pointless sending me in because 80 percent of my work can be done remotely.
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I did, a lot, on a thread linked far above yesterday, on the 衛生福利部 FB page. Several people here read it. It was hateful and depressing. People were calling SEA migrants trash. You can blame it on China-lovers if it makes you embarrassed that some Taiwanese are mean, but that’s not what happened. There is a thread where people write about their experiences of racism if you want to look that up.
I think this thing about a foreigner shouting on the MRT is fake news, old news, or misread news. The Twitter post is from an account with negligible credibility, and it’s an unsourced undated clip that could have been made at any time. The only news I can find on gossip sites is this:
https://www.bc3ts.net/post/37760
“Reporting” 2 cases of maskless women shouting. One on the MRT asks “Is this a foreign country?” She was also claiming “rights”.
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I’m wondering what they’ll do to help businesses stay afloat.
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Some of my GF employees has asked if they can stay home without pay. One girl that’s around 30 years old told she’s not allowed to leave home by her parents. I don’t think covid will survive long in Taiwan this time either.
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Good q. Huge economic impact. Hopefully they’ll give a monthly stipend for those who must cease operations. It’s hard to give tax rebate to restaurants and vendors who don’t pay tax.
100 NTD stimulus voucher.
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If they live together, as many do, it becomes quite risky quite fast.
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LOL… wait, is he counting on fingers or giving the finger to a reporter?
Can’t he get sued? 
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Two birds with one stone? So to speak…
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From your lips to Mazu’s ears, but I’m a lot more pessimistic.
My wife says he has Asperger’s. Might explain some of his… eccentric behavior.