WT has various clubs, which offer exclusive courses and activities for their members, as well as a wide range of activities with different themes, large and small, for all employees to join. A variety of public-interest activities are organized to advocate environmental protection and social care, during which employees may relax and have fun through meaningful club activities, and build positive family and parent-child relationships. The club general assembly held at the beginning of each year allow new employees to explore and choose their favorite clubs to join. The Company makes continuous efforts to seek breakthroughs and set up more different types of clubs for a diversified all-round development, so the members may encourage and support each other to complete a competition, and exchange health and sports information. Club members participate in static activities to relax their bodies and minds, or dynamic activities to sweat and get naturally high. The Company not only provides subsidies and promotes the clubs, but also encourage employees’ engagement, so as to make sports and hobbies one of its pillars.
Actively promoting club activities for team building
Golf Club, a newly-formed club
The Golf Club was officially launched in 2023. With the subsidy and support from the Company, employees who would otherwise not have the opportunity to play golf could join one of the Club’s Tuesday after-hour sessions at golf course and get a hands-on experience. Once becoming a formal member, they would have access to professional instruction. Seasoned players of the Club are happy to teach beginners and make golf become a fashionable, elegant and accessible leisure sport in WT. The Club will enter formal operation in 2024, and be involved in organizing monthly the employee cup competitions, the WT Microelectronics Invitationals, and occasional friendly rounds with suppliers and customers. Through the Club, employees will be inspired and motivated to play a new sport.
Pushing boundaries with The Fun Run Club and Mountain climbing Club
The Fun Run Club participated in five marathons in 2023, including Dahu Strawberry Culture Carnival Marathon, Matsu Beigan Hard Ultra Marathon, Marie Claire Pink Run, New Taipei City OSH Cup Road Race, and Banqiao Marathon Road Race. This year, a series of training courses were organized according to individual runner’s physical fitness, road running experience and personal health status. Road race participants were given advice on distance and terrain that match their training intensity, so that even first-timers could complete the event healthily and safely within their own limits.
After the competition, sharing sessions were organized where participants can share the problems and interesting stories they encountered during the event. Setting off in the early hours of the morning, running enthusiastically despite heavy rain, and facing scorching sun and sandstorms could not deter their determination to cross the finish line. Engaging in proper sports activities can effectively improve physical, mental, and spiritual health, embodying the true essence of the Company’s continuous efforts to promote various sports.
The managers of the mountain climbing club include members with professional mountain climbing licenses and extensive climbing experiences. They lead the members to visit various beautiful mountain landscapes. Besides difficult mountain climbing events, easier hiking schedules have been planned for families. In 2024, we plan to organize mountain camping trips to explore the visual impact of starry nights in areas with low light pollution in the mountains. We aim to experience awakening in the morning amidst the sounds of insects and birds, and enjoy the comfort of light mist, morning dew, and dawn, which will undoubtedly bring another level of physical and mental well-being to our employees.
Making friends in the Basketball Club and Badminton Club and having the first WT Cup
The Badminton Club and basketball competitions were organized for team-building and fun. The Company provides prize money, trophies, medals, a venue and facilities to create an authentic competition atmosphere. The cheering group composed of employees and their families also lift up the players’ spirits and give them a sense of formal game. Families and friends are invited to participate in weekend events so as to spread health awareness and inspire more to engage in sports.
Customers and vendors are invited to register and make friends on the court to celebrate the shared love for sports and forget about the stress from work. Ball game competitions were promoted since the Basketball Club’s “WT Microelectronics Cup Invitational” in 2023. Invitation was widely sent out to partner companies for the round-robin tournament. Adjustment was made to the format and scale of the friendly matches to diversify WT’s effort to promote healthy sports and expand the employees’ social circle as well as knowledge. A total of 5 teams participated in the four-week tournament, which not only saw the original objective of meeting friends through basketball achieved, but also sew the seeds for more invitational tournament in the future.
Calming the soul and nourishing the body with The Floral Art Club and Cooking Club
The Floral Art Club organizes flower art courses periodically. The course contents include knowledge on various plants and bonsais. This is used to promote the important role of green plants in slowing down global warming and effectively enhance the green atmosphere in the office. Green living starts from all angles. The vases allow employees to bring their own pots for re-decoration, which not only breathes new life into the pots, but also allows the concept of recycling to be implemented indefinitely. The “New Year Flower and Rice Screen Hanging Decoration” course is held in conjunction with the New Year holiday. It combines traditional rice screens with seasonal flowers to create festive decorations, adding a different embellishment to home decorations during the Lunar New Year. In response to the Chinese Valentine’s Day “Flowers and Words” course, fresh flowers are paired with round glass pots and displayed through a layered circular perspective to enhance a different experience of beauty for employees.
The Cooking Club continues to align its course arrangements with the theme of enjoying health through vegetarianism, starting with healthy low-carbon diets. It promotes healthy eating among employees by encouraging the use of seasonal local ingredients and striving to consume a diverse range of whole foods as much as possible. In our busy daily lives, we often overlook the importance of a balanced diet. Imbalanced nutrition in meals can also increase health risks among employees. Starting from 2023, we are implementing activities promoting low-sugar and lowsodium diets. We focus on ingredient selection, seasoning combinations, and basic cooking techniques, aiming to make healthy eating effortless and balanced nutrient intake the top priority.
Continue applying for the Sports Enterprise Certification Review and the CHR Healthy Citizen Enterprise Initiative in 2024
In 2024, WT will apply for a renewal of the the Sports Enterprise Certification Review by Taiwan’s Sports Administration of the Ministry of Education it received in 2021. The Certification is valid for three years. WT joined the CHR Healthy Citizen Enterprise Initiative in 2023, and will undergo a CHR evaluation conducted by the Health Magazine in 2024. We are doing our best to take full care of the employees’ physical, mental and spiritual well-being, and expect the third-party review advise areas where we could do better and more for our employees.
Eating well to live well
Selected fresh delicious drinks without safety concerns are provided. Coffees are prepared with top Swiss automatic coffee machines using carefully selected quality coffee beans that have passed SGS toxin tests. Tea drinks are brewed from organic tea from a non-toxic natural farming plantation in Ruisui, Hualien. High-quality fresh milk drinks certified with FSSC 22000 Food Safety Management System are strictly checked for impurities and expiration date upon arrival to ensure that employees enjoy the safest and healthiest fresh milk.
On the weekly Fruit Day, healthy and safe fresh fruits from our small long-term partner farmers in central Taiwan are offered to the employees. The direct fruit procurement from the place of origin improve the farmers’ income, so that they can focus on growing healthier and more delicious fruits, reduce the use of pesticides and allow the land rest. Direct delivery from the place of origin also reduces food carbon footprint. While the fruits are distributed, their grower’s story is told and words shared. The transparent production and marketing creates an emotional bond between employees and the fruits in their hands. In China, fresh fruits are locally sourced to promote a balanced diet with more fruit consumption.
WT is committed to advocating the importance of balanced meals and breakfast. Breakfast bar events and vegetable lunch boxes are organized in the Taiwan headquarters, while healthy and balanced breakfasts are also provided every Monday in the offices across 28 cites in China. With the concept of “eat less meat and more vegetables; reduce carbon and increase health”, a plant-based food campaign was launched to promote awareness of a low carbon diet and serve the purpose of energy saving, carbon reduction, health enhancement, and physical burden alleviation. According to the International Meatless Day, one meatless meal reduces 760 grams of CO2 emission. At that rate, the carbon-reducing vegetable meal events in Taiwan, with the participation of 3,479 person-times, reduced approximately 2.644 tonnes of CO2e emission, which would be equivalent to planting five camphor trees with a diameter of 47 centimeters at breast height and a height of about 11 meters. Only by promoting plant-based food more proactively can carbon reduction become an important part of daily life.
Cultivating multicultural literacy
Promoting the habit of reading to stimulate brain and pursuit of knowledge
The WT Microelectronics Book Club aims to promote the habit of reading. It adds new books in different fields every month to expand the knowledge of the employees. The Book Club allows the employees to improve their cultural qualities, adjust their body and mind, and expand their relevant knowledge during their spare time. A spacious, bright, and comfortable space has been established in the Company, which provide coffee and other drinks. Employees can take a break from their work, have a coffee, read a magazine, and clear their minds in this leisurely space.
Continued support for arts, cultural events, and social sharing
For the second year, WT provides tickets for the World Citizen Academy and Concert and the children’s choir “Nice Voice” concert. WT also promotes concerts with charity groups to enhance the cultivation of artistic and literary qualities among employees, increase their time with family and friends, and allow those who support the arts and social sharing to keep pace with the times. For the 30th anniversary events, the special exhibition features a quiz with prizes, which includes tickets to the “RE: Paul Chiang – Meditating Algorithm: Immersive in the life and works of Paul Chiang” by the renowned artist Paul Chiang in 2023. The exhibition tickets were well received by our employees. We plan to provide more high-quality, extensive, and diverse exhibition tickets in 2024 to promote art and culture.
Team-building activities to develop bonds
Department team cohesion training courses are held every year in Taiwan and provide various types of team motivation activities for employees to sign up for. The diverse activities include fun activities, handcrafting and printing courses to inspire creativity, enhance concentration and emotional communication, and achieve the goal in the process.
Communicate and coordinate, solve problems, stimulate creativity, enhance morale, and acquire new interests and knowledge. In 2023, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Xiamen in China will also successively organize this activity, making the team’s tacit understanding training more comprehensive and regional.
Happy holidays and lots of happiness with prizes and gifts
In addition to issuing annual bonuses on specific holidays every year to keep employees happy during the holiday, a garden party called “Rice Dumplings for the Dragon Boat Festival” is held during the Dragon Boat Festival to prepare various flavors of meat dumplings and traditional snacks for employees to feast on. Vintage mini-games evoked everyone’s childhood memories. Walking into the event venue was like walking into a time capsule, and the scene and atmosphere felt like the early days of Taiwan. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, we held the “WT Microelectronics 30 Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration”, which included the Wugang Woodcutting Fun event to inspire teamwork and participation by both male and female employees. There were also activities like “Stack the Pomelo”, which required good hand-eye coordination, and the kombucha DIY experience course. After the course, employees continued to cultivate Scoby yeast and shared it with others, which was also an effective way to promote healthy eating habits.
During the Lunar New Year, we held the “WT Microelectronics 30 Celebrating the New Year of the Dragon” New Year activities. It included lantern art painting activities. Employees who completed the lantern painting received exquisite New Year gift boxes, and the lanterns carefully created by the employees were also hung at the New Year’s garden party, which greatly enhanced the sense of participation and livened the New Year atmosphere of the garden party. At the New Year’s Garden Party offered various of dessert and the interesting missions to collect points. The most talked-about activities were the “Lucky Red Envelope Lucky Lottery” and the DIY red envelope silk printing. The Lucky Red Envelope Lucky Lottery offered various prizes such as smart home appliances, electronics, lifestyle items, New Year’s goods, and charitable items. The DIY red envelope silk printing included templates specially designed for the 30th anniversary of the Company, allowing employees to personally create their own Lunar New Year red envelopes. From the event, we could feel the joy and Lunar New Year atmosphere. Also, employees received a healthy traditional oil gift box from Beigang, Yunlin.
Starting from 2023, the China region will successively launch celebration activities for various festivals. For the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine’s Day, and the 38th Goddess’ Day, exquisite and healthy afternoon teas will be arranged for employees to share the benefits of the festival through afternoon tea time after work. Not only that, but also with the festive paper fan DIY and “Everything is covered – lunch time”, supervisors personally wash their hands and make soup, so that employees can enjoy the sincerity from supervisors, and a bowl of noodles is full of emotional inheritance and warm-hearted care, effectively shortening the distance between supervisors and employees, eliminating the barriers between each other, and truly realizing the original concept of WT’s big family.
Employee one-day trips to restart and make a strong comeback
Employee one-day trips resumed in 2023, after being suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employees are invited to come with their families, whose expenses are also subsidized. The outings are designed to offer an in-depth understanding of local cultures, exclusive attractions, seasonal food, etc. of various places in Taiwan, and a variety of interactive games and experiences are incorporated to the program for ice breaking and team building. Employees are offered a variety of itineraries in different styles, including parent-child experiences, extreme challenges, and scenic tours trips, to choose from according to their interests and whether they come alone or with families. For example, rafting trips that would fit energetic young groups, and parent-child itineraries that would be suitable for family outings. The latter would feature fun attractions that parents can enjoy with their young children and DIY activities that attract all ages. There are also itineraries featuring top destinations for influencer content. Efforts were made to ensure every package contains something interesting for every age group. In 2023, a total of 1,188 employees and their family members participated in the 18 travel routes.
Short hotel trips will be launched in 2024, including well-known hotels in the different counties and cities in Taiwan, with green hotels as the priority to actively promote green tourism and for employees to bring their own toiletries to reduce the use and waste of disposable toiletries, further limiting the generation of waste.
Volunteers roll up their sleeves and work side by side with farmers
As Taiwan’s agricultural workforce ages, the number of people engaged in farming has been declining year by year. While many farmers have the ability to cultivate crops, there is a shortage of manpower during harvest. Additionally, Taiwan’s unpredictable weather often results in damage to fruits and vegetables that are not harvested in time. The 2023 agricultural volunteer activities continued to encouraged employees to go outdoors in a healthy way, while also rolling up their sleeves and working on farms. The activity mainly provides field assistance to small farmers in remote rural areas in Taiwan. It not only allows farmers to feel at ease, but also allows employees to acquire agricultural knowledge and practice good deeds. A total of 138 people participated in the activities. In 2024, we will continue the Love for Farms project. In addition to continuing to order fruits from small farmers, we will further plan activities to venture into the fields in the south. This will allow employees and their families to work side by side with farmers.
