ESG
Employees are the most important cornerstone to corporate growth. In order to promote optimal labor-management relations, the MetaAge Group is proactively creating a fair, healthy, and diversified workplace. The statistics are based on the number of people at the end of the year. As of the end of 2023, the MetaAge Group had a total of 671 employees, an increase of 44 people from 2022 where the total number was 627. Full-time employees accounted for 98.07% with a gender ratio of 1.01:1. The MetaAge Group believes that a diversified workplace helps boost corporate innovation momentum and also live up to the value of equality in the workplace to create a virtuous circle. Therefore, in the type, locality, age, and level of duty of employees hired, the structure is consistently equal and balanced.
Employees of MetaAge are young and energetic. As far as education is concerned, most employees hold a college/university diploma, followed by those with a master’s degree and then those with a doctorate.
MetaAge offers smooth career paths while at the same time valuing gender equality. There are female high-ranking supervisors and medium-ranking supervisors.
MetaAge is devoted to protecting a diversified and inclusive workplace and provides aboriginals, the disabled, or foreign employees with proper opportunities. In 2023, we have 3 foreigners working for us. mainly technical engineers, accounting for approximately 1.4% of the technical engineering department. In terms of hiring employees from disadvantaged groups, the proportion reached 1.79%. MetaAge exceeds the legal requirement of 1% for employing individuals with disabilities and provides suitable job opportunities for Indigenous people and individuals with disabilities, ensuring their work and life rights. The company strives to contribute to a friendly employment environment.
To get ready early and stay competitive in the rapidly growing sector. MetaAge proactively recruits outstanding administration, business development, and engineering/technical service professionals. Age or gender is not a differential criterion. MetaAge is known for its universal talent recruitment criteria that contribute to nearly balanced demographics of newcomers at MetaAge. Among the newcomers in 2023, for example, were a total of 54 men (about 45%) and 66 women (about 55%). There were 120 newcomers in total, fewer than the 161 newcomers in 2021. After we became part of the parent company, Qisda Corporation in 2019, we have provided more diversified talent development programs and abundant employee benefits and activities to attract potential outstanding talent on the market to join us.
MetaAge Group provides parental leave, maternity leave and paternity leave, so that employees can balance work and family, and has a comprehensive employee return system, including arrangements for the period of leave without pay, work and career assistance, etc. In 2023, six employees apply for parental leave, seven people are expected to be reinstated, the actual number of reinstatement is 6, since 2021, only 1 person has not actually returned to work in 2023, and the reinstatement rate in the rest of the years has reached 100%.
In order to encourage more women to participate in the AI/technology field, MetaAge sponsored the WAI 2023 hackathon with 20,000 NTD and participated in the online lecture held by WAI Taiwan. Through interaction, attract more high-quality female talents to join the company. Enterprise personnel served as lecturers to share topics related to AI job hunting, and promote MetaAge-related employment opportunities and corporate advantages. It also provides AI tool software courses to add more digital talents, thereby reducing recruitment costs and expanding the talent database.
