Taipei, Dec. 14, 2012 (CENS)--Contrasting most of their peers having carried out layoffs and unpaid furloughs to counter global economic doldrums, Asustek Computer Inc. and Acer Inc., Taiwan’s top two PC brand vendors, both have moved to expand their workforces, pumping positive momentum into the island’s gloomy high-tech industries.
Dampened by a sagging global market amid an uncertain economy, some of Taiwan’s high-tech companies of display panels, LEDs and online games have been forced to either cut employees or impose unpaid leaves recently.
In the scenario, some of Taiwan’s PC firms, however, have decided to recruit more new workers to meet the upcoming booms following the rise of touchscreens, tablet PCs, software and cloud services.
Among them, Asustek plans to recruit 700 new employees engaged in R&D, sales and marketing, mainly because the firm is optimistic about both its business development and market prospects of laptops, tablet PCs and smartphones in the years to come. Noteworthily, the firm has poached many engineers from HTC Corp., a Taiwanese smartphone supplier, so far in the year to speed up developing its smartphone business.
Few would question that Asustek has experienced its auspicious year in 2012, when its overall PC sales show a brisk growth. In November, for instance, the firm’s laptop and tablet PC shipment exceeded 1.8 million units and 1 million units, respectively, making institutional investors believe that the firm’s combined revenue for the month will hit an all-time high of NT$43 billion.
Coincidentally, Acer, after gradually rallying from business downturns seen in 2011 through the first half of 2012, has also been determined to expand its current R&D workforce of around 1,000 people by 20% in each of the coming three years, in an effort to strengthen its in-house design capability to revive its growth.
