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Talent Management Strategy
Silergy Corp. attaches great importance to the training and development of professional talents. In addition to providing a good working environment and promotion pipeline, Silergy Corp. also provides comprehensive education and training to foster diversified R&D talents and maintains employee benefits and profit sharing policy to attract outstanding design talents to join us. In addition, we continue to carefully manage the relationship with employees and establish good communication channels to strengthen the alignment and cohesion of employees and reduce the risk of staff turnover. Additionally, the Company relies on an experienced leadership team to establish a training and management system to effectively accumulate professional knowledge and nurture the foundation of sustainable development.
Talent recruitment plan
Silergy Corp. has a variety of talent recruiting methods, such as online recruiting, campus recruiting (campus hiring and campus job training program), recruiting expo, and internal referral mechanisms to attract suitable talents. We recruited 253 people through multiple recruitment channels in 2020.
Internship program
With the belief of cultivating professional talents, we provide internship opportunities, recruit campus interns, and cooperate with colleges and universities to establish joint training and internship bases to cultivate professional talents that meet the needs of Silergy Corp. and at the same time bring practical knowledge of the industry to the campus to facilitate social cultivation.

The "Excellence Program" is a corporate internship project jointly implemented by Silergy Corp. and Zhejiang University, providing a platform for outstanding undergraduate students. The internship contents are developed by corporate instructors, who will also evaluate the performances of the interns, and those with outstanding performance will be given priority to work at Silergy Corp.

In addition, Silergy Corp. cooperates with the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology to provide an internship program for students to learn the practical experience of product circuit testing/board design directly within Silergy Corp. Upon completion of the internship, outstanding performers will be given priority in job opportunities. Through the above internship program, Silergy Corp. is able to nurture outstanding and suitable talents as early as possible to facilitate the Company's sustainable development.
Note: Reduced number of interns due to COVID-19 in 2019~2020.
Talent Cultivation
Human resources are the cornerstone of sustainable business operation. In order to enhance the ability and quality of employees and maintain a long-term competitive advantage, Silergy Corp. has arranged suitable development plans for different types of employees, and 100% of employees have received corresponding education and training.
• For new graduates/new employees (including part-time and contractors), we provide onboard orientation and basic work skills training to facilitate their quick integration into the Company
• For the current employees, we provide two development paths, technical and managerial, with reference to their career planning and development direction, and further design functional training according to their stage, based on the framework of "basic knowledge", "core competencies" and "professional capabilities", and provide suitable training courses
At the same time, we provide a training evaluation mechanism to assess the effectiveness of employee learning and development and continuously observe the performance of trained employees in the business process for verification to create the value of sustainable human resources development.

In 2020, more than 50% of the job vacancies were filled by internal leaders, indicating that Silergy Corp. provides sufficient opportunities and resources for talents to effectively develop their careers within the Company.
Diversified workplace
In addition, Silergy Corp. attaches great importance to fair competition and a friendly atmosphere for women in the workplace, so the proportion of female employees has increased yearly in recent years.
Management and Leadership Development Plan
Silergy Corp. attaches great importance to the leadership and development of the Company's talents. Therefore, we have developed a complete and appropriate training program for leaders at different levels to ensure the high quality of the Company's entire human resources. Through customized development plans, we can effectively set off the potential of our employees.
Base-
level
leaders
• Business decision-making and allocation capability
• Understanding your tasks
• Strengthening organizational management skills
• Deploying coaching and development capability
• Problem prevention and resolution capability
• Enhancing leadership capability
• Foreign language communication skill
Mid-
level
leaders
• Business decision-making and allocation capability
• Understanding your tasks
• Strengthening organizational management skills
• Deploying coaching and development capability
• Problem prevention and resolution capability
• Enhancing leadership capability
• Foreign language communication skill
Senior-
level
leaders
• Management decision-making and coordination skill
• Understanding the tasks of department managers
• Developing management decision-making skill
• Mastering your departmental management priority
• Learning how to develop successors
• Learning basic budget management and goal management capability
• Foreign language communication skill
Performance Evaluation
As an innovative and efficient firm, Silergy Corp. has established a scientific and effective management system, a comprehensive performance appraisal system, which sets the criteria for promotion according to individual ability and seniority, promotes continuous and effective communication between leaders and employees on the status of goal achievement, and provides timely feedback and guidance to achieve forward-looking management. Also, performance management is integrated with training and development and remuneration and benefits systems to motivate employees to perform well.
1. Half-yearly performance appraisal is conducted for all employees. Employment performance, the achievement rate of the previous year's goals, professional behavior and ethics, and corporate culture values are used as appraisal components
2. Annual salary adjustment, year-end bonus, stock options, etc. are linked to employees' performance
3. Leaders communicate with employees about their overall performance and career goals, and provide consultation on short-, medium- and long-term career development plans

Note: The number of participants in the performance appraisal at the end of 2020 was expected to be 968, with an appraisal rate of 96%.
Remuneration and Benefits
Silergy Corp. provides competitive remuneration and has established the "Employee Remuneration Management Measures", which stipulate that a maximum of 20% of pre-tax profits and a minimum of 8% may be set aside as employee profit sharing bonus, thus fully linking the profitability of the Company's overall operations with the performance of individual employees and effectively motivating employees to perform well.
Scope of employee stock ownership plan
Since 2008, Silergy Corp. has launched an employee stocks incentive program, which is applicable to all employees. The incentive program serves as a long-term incentive to retain talents and protect the Company's core competitiveness.
Non-salary benefits and work-life balance mechanism
In addition to a competitive remuneration mechanism, Silergy Corp. has developed and implemented a variety of non-remuneration benefits to maintain work-life balance to achieve sustainable management.
Diversified mind, body and spirit welfare care
Health care
• Annual health checkup
Life care
• The Company has 31 associations and clubs, and holds regular club activities
• Regular birthday parties, quarterly events, etc.
Vacation benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Family leave, seniority leave
• Additional 15 days of special leave for calendar days after 5 years of service
• One group trip per year, multiple travel routes
Insurance care
• Additional supplemental commercial insurance for each employee
• Maximum percentage for the five insurances and housing fund
Note: Seniority leave means an additional day of paid vacation for every full year of employees working in the company.
In summary, Silergy Corp. continues to use employee satisfaction and turnover rate as indicators of remuneration and benefits, and the latest employee satisfaction survey reached 90%. The turnover rate has dropped sharply in the past three years. Among them, the turnover rate of R&D employees dropped to 5.8%, which was even more significant. It demonstrates the effectiveness of Silergy Corp.'s favorable benefits.
Human Rights Policy
Silergy Corp. complies with relevant laws and regulations and follows international human rights conventions to ensure gender equality, right to work, and prohibit discrimination, etc. We have established appropriate management policies and procedures to fulfill our responsibility to protect human rights, which include:
1. Proposing corporate human rights policies or statements.
2. Evaluating the impact of the Company's operating activities and internal management on human rights, and establishing procedures to deal with them accordingly.
3. Reviewing the effectiveness of corporate human rights policies or statements regularly.
4. Disclosing the procedures for dealing with stakeholders involved in human rights violations.
Silergy Corp. defends internationally recognized labor human rights, such as freedom of association, the right to collective bargaining, care for the underprivileged, prohibition of child labor, eradication of all forms of forced labor, elimination of hiring and employment discrimination, etc. Silergy Corp. also confirms that its human resource utilization policies do not discriminate based on gender, race, socio-economic class, age, marital status and family status, and that they provide equal and fair employment, hiring criteria, remuneration, benefits, training, evaluation and promotion opportunities. Silergy Corp. provides an effective and appropriate complaint mechanism to ensure equality and transparency in the complaint process in cases where labor rights and interests are jeopardized.
Employee Communication
Silergy Corp. has established a regular communication and dialogue channel for employees to have the right to obtain information and express their opinions on the Company's management activities and decisions. Silergy Corp. respects the right of employee representatives to negotiate on working conditions, and provides employees with the necessary information and hardware facilities to promote negotiation and cooperation between management and employees and employee representatives. In addition, Silergy Corp. provides reasonable notice of operational changes that may significantly impact employees.
Employee Health and Safety Policy
Health and safety policy
Silergy Corp. emphasizes workplace safety and aims to create a safe and healthy working environment for employees and contractors with zero occupational injuries, including the provision of necessary health and first aid facilities, and strives to reduce the risk factors to employee safety and health in order to prevent occupational hazards. Silergy Corp. provides regular safety and health education and training to all employees and provides annual health checkups for all employees.

No occupational diseases or injuries occurred in 2020.
Health promotion measures
• Annual health checkup
• Regular health seminars
Note: Employee health and safety insurance, medical care expenditures, etc