Growth and Developments
Far EasTone is committed to employee growth and career development through a structured talent development framework encompassing competency development, on-the-job training, degree programs, and professional certification pathways. Employees are eligible for tuition assistance of up to NT$200,000 and external learning opportunities to build professional expertise and future-ready capabilities. Through its digital learning management system, the Company tracks learning and certification achievements, supports individual development planning, and promotes equitable access to development opportunities, strengthening workforce capability and long-term organizational competitiveness.
FET integrates organizational diagnostics, market trend analysis, and customer insights into its training and development journey to align with current and future talent needs. Since 2019, the Company has pursued its “Big, AI, and IoT” (Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Internet of Things) talent development model as part of its digital transformation strategy. To ensure continuous improvement, FET conducts annual reviews of training programs to keep them comprehensive, relevant, and closely aligned with corporate strategy and operational objectives. To preserve proprietary knowledge and provide career development opportunities for internal experts, FET launched internal trainer development initiatives in 2020. These include in-house courses, employee book clubs, and technical salons to encourage cross-team knowledge exchange and foster a learning-oriented corporate culture.Recognizing the shift toward personalized and digital learning, FET introduced a comprehensive online learning platform accessible to all employees. The platform allows employees to customize their learning paths based on personal needs, supporting the acquisition of external knowledge while nurturing internal talent growth.
■ Talent Development Strategy
Main Aspects |
Target |
2025 Highlights |
Developing Managerial and Professional Talent |
To develop managerial and professional talent needed for the era of digital transformation |
▶ Ground-Up Development: 3E Learning Program for New Business Employees with FET has implemented a one-year progressive training and internship program based on the 3E ▶ Leadership Development:“ Error-Free®” Program for Continuous Improvement Among Management In response to the rapid changes of the digital era, ‘it is better to prevent errors ▶Self-Driven Learning: Enhance Self-Learning and Digital Transformation Growth In response to the trend of personalized learning, FET provides all employees with access to ▶Striving for Excellence: Promotion of New Manager Training Programs To support professionals transitioning into supervisory roles and to help newly appointed |
Main Aspects |
Target |
2025 Highlights |
Becoming Diverse Learning Partners |
Construct physical and online learning channels through internal experts to transform into a learning organization |
▶ Knowledge Creation: Empowering Internal Instructors as a Key Training Force Since 2021, including the third round of instructor recruitment and training launched in 2023, ▶ Knowledge Diffusion: Advancing Internal and External Training Initiatives Building on the strategic focus on digital transformation,FET continued in 2025 to offer ▶ Cultural Education: Promoting Core Values and Annual Cultural Priorities To promote a positive corporate culture and cultivate an energetic and innovative organization, ▶ Three Retirement Stations: A Task Force Initiative to Support Ideal Retirement Planning Rooted in FET’s core value of “Care,” the Company launched a retirement life planning initiative |
Encouraging Innovation and Skill Inventory |
Promoting digital transformation and innovation based on the Big data/AI/IoT” |
▶ Promoting the Strategy: Training Programs Aligned with the “Big, AI, and IoT” Model To advance its strategic goals under the “Big, AI, and IoT” model, ▶ Digital Transformation: Leveraging Digital Tools and Team Networks to Promote FET continues to offer training programs on digital transformation and AI literacy In support of sustainability goals, the Company in 2025 continued to conduct the ▶Innovation Culture: Encouraging Boundary-Breaking and New Possibilities Innovation is a core value at FET. To cultivate employees’ lean thinking regarding processes, ▶Professional Skills and Certification Mapping: Building and Analyzing Role-Based Data FET completed the development of a professional skills database and dashboard for |
Training Results
In response to the challenges posed by industrial and climate transitions, FET’s 2025 training initiatives focused on three core areas: enhancing work efficiency, understanding industry trends, and advancing technical skills. Additionally, FET continued to conduct the “Digital Sustainability Elite Development Program” to equip employees with capabilities in sustainable supply chain management and support the company’s transition toward sustainable and industrial advancement. To align with the company’s sustainability goals, general education courses on ESG and gender equality continued to be offered to strengthen employee awareness. Furthermore, the Company continued to advance its three-stage ‘Empowering Employees with AI’ initiative, designing a ‘Mastering High-Efficiency Workplace Capabilities’ AI training map to support the company’s AI digital sustainability development. For product and service-related units, the ‘Smart ICT Pioneer Training Program’ continued to be held, helping employees incorporate environmental, social, and governance considerations at the early stages of solution planning. The training content focused on smart cities, digital healthcare, digital transformation, and telecom integrated applications, demonstrating how to utilize green ICT, IoT, and AI technologies to develop solutions that balance energy efficiency, cybersecurity, and social impact. This enhances employees’ ability to implement sustainable design principles into products and services, supporting the net-zero transition and expanding the corporate positive social impact, with approximately 19.3 training hours and 472 training attendees completed. In 2025, FET employees received an average of 55 hours of training, with a total investment of NT$51,425,672, and an average training expense of NT$9,467 per employee. In support of digital transformation, the training content became more strategic, learning modes more digitalized, and resources more diversified.
■Statistics of employee training categories in 2025
| Type of training | Description | Number of classes | Persons participated in the training |
Training hours (person-hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compliance & risk |
Courses about the standards and rules, such as internal audit, zero-violence workplace, integrity, ethical corporate management, and compliance. |
110 | 23,312 | 29,693 |
| Management | The competency training of management which was necessary for manager. |
21 | 709 | 3,156 |
| Specific employees/ managers training |
New hires, new managers, internal lecturer training or talent development projects. |
292 | 2,007 | 6,435 |
| Vocational competency |
Courses related to work efficiency, industry trends, industry technologies, and professional competencies required for digital transformation |
1,136 | 143,873 | 173,892 |
| Information and technology security |
Information communication security, social security, personal data protection, etc. |
59 | 18,254 | 28,956 |
| Self development training |
External training and in-service training. | 254 | 72,566 | 57,740 |
| Total | - | 1,872 | 260,721 | 299,872 |
■ Total Number of Employees Trained, Hours of Training, and Gender Distribution in 2025
| Gender | Female | Male | Total | |||
| Rank | Total | Average hours of training | Total | Average hours of training | Total | Average hours of training |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Employee | 2,383 | 65 | 2,552 | 51 | 4,935 | 58 |
| Primary Supervisor | 47 | 40 | 89 | 32 | 136 | 34 |
| Mid-Level Supervisor | 111 | 31 | 224 | 27 | 335 | 29 |
| Senior Executive | 9 | 22 | 17 | 26 | 26 | 25 |
| Total | 2,550 | 63 | 2,882 | 48 | 5,432 | 55 |
Note | Training Hours: Refers to the total training hours of all employees(including former) who participated in any training programs.
Culture and Organizations
Agile Way - My New Agile Approach
In the New Digital Era, FET introduced "AGILE WAY, An Agile Attitude", this is to encourage employees achieving their goals through ability to adjust their direction in a timely manner, flexibility to utilize resources, respond in a proactive fashion and stimulate new creative ideas in their approaches.

5G-BIG (Big Data, Intelligence, IoT) Talents
Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and IoT are the main focuses of FarEasTone developments in recent years. Committing to digital transformation, creative applications and cultivating talents in the related fields, each employee becomes a driver in our innovation advancement and we build up a wide range of digital life for our customers.
Since its establishment in 2018, the FET Innovation Award has become one of the Company's flagship innovation programs, bringing together innovative talent from across business units and subsidiaries. The program encourages employees to challenge existing conventions, transform creative ideas into tangible outcomes, and cultivate a culture of innovation. To date, the Innovation Award has generated more than 325 innovation proposals and nearly 2,000 participations, demonstrating FET's innovation capabilities while fostering cross-functional collaboration, accelerating digital transformation, and supporting sustainable business growth.
In 2025, the competition attracted 48 proposals. After a rigorous evaluation process, 6 teams and 2 individuals were selected as award winners. More than a recognition of outstanding achievements, the Innovation Award symbolizes FET's long-term commitment to innovation and its continuous efforts to build future competitiveness.
