ESG

Stakeholder & Employee

Identification of Stakeholders

ASPEED Technology’s Sustainability Development Working Team identifies and evaluates core stakeholders based on the business and interactions of each department, pursuant to the five principles of the AA1000 Stakeholder Engagement Standard (AA1000 SES): Responsibility, Influence, Dependency, Tension, and Diverse Perspectives. Nine key stakeholders were ultimately identified as priority targets for engagement: employees, shareholders & investors, customers, suppliers, government agencies, media, public welfare organizations, academic research organizations, and partners.

Stakeholder Category Engagement 2022 Communication Results Topics of Concern
Customers

(Having the greatest influence on ASPEED Technology’s product/technology development and design)

  • Customer contact email address: sales@aspeedtech.com
  • Customer satisfaction survey (annually)
  • Sales interviews and interactions (ad hoc)
  • Customer satisfaction rate of 94.74%
  • 37% of domestic and international customers provide written feedback
  • No customer complaints were issued to our customer service team in 2022
  • Public responses to sustainable management issues raised by customers including CDP, RBA, green product, and conflict minerals, response rate 100%.
  • Customer privacy and confidentiality measures
  • Product quality and customer satisfaction
  • Technological and R&D innovations
  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Response to international organizations and initiatives
  • Management of waste and hazardous materials
Employees

(The most important resource of ASPEED Technology and critical partners for the sustainable development of the Company)

  • Opinions mailbox: hr@aspeedtech.com(regular)
  • Labor-management coordination meeting (quarterly)
  • Meeting of Employee Welfare Committee (quarterly)
  • Manager discussions
  • Employee satisfaction survey (annually)
  • Expressing opinions at the end of the year (annually)
  • One-on-one discussions (ad hoc)
  • Held four labor-management meetings to offer comprehensive discussions and responses relating to labor movement and employee welfare.
  • Performance assessment reviews take place every April. A total of 104 reviews were held, for a completion rate of 100%.
  • Weekly in-depth one-on-one discussions with managers in the Operation Division and New Products Division.
  • All issues were addressed at the year-end satisfaction survey.
  • Operational achievements and financial performance
  • Compensation and performance mechanisms
  • Employee benefits and care
  • Employee cultivation and career development
  • Workplace equality and human rights protection
  • Talent recruitment and cultivation
  • Community contributions and social participation
Government Agencies

(Policies, laws or regulations can influence the operational directions or decision making of ASPEED Technology)

  • General inquiry email address: info@aspeedtech.com
  • Official documents, emails, and meetings (ad hoc)
  • Advocacy meetings, public hearings (ad hoc)
  • Participated in the TWSE Corporate Governance Evaluations.
  • Conducted ad hoc communication relating to our business or specific topics.
  • We were not issued any fines or penalties by the competent authorities in 2022.
  • Corporate governance and ethical corporate management
  • Information security and privacy
  • Operational achievements and financial performance
  • Risk management
  • Legal compliance
  • Compensation and performance mechanisms
Cooperative Partners

(Grows with ASPEED Technology through close cooperation, important partner for ASPEED Technology)

  • General inquiry email address: info@aspeedtech.com
  • Social participation and public welfare activities (ad hoc)
  • Communicate and visit cooperative partners irregularly
  • Invitation to annual events
  • Sustainable supply chain management
  • Technological and R&D innovations
  • Risk management
  • Legal compliance
  • Compensation and performance mechanisms
Media

(Reports and assessments impacting the Company’s reputation and image)

  • In 2022, senior management gave three special interviews following media request, two radio interviews and several telephone interviews.
  • Issued press releases to announce major news.
  • One press conference for major news.
  • Corporate governance and ethical corporate management
  • Operational achievements and financial performance
  • Technological and R&D innovations
  • Legal compliance
Shareholders/Investors

(Influencing the stock price by appraisals of Company)

  • Investor relations email address: ir@aspeedtech.com
  • Shareholders’ meeting (annually)
  • Foreign and domestic investors’ meeting (ad hoc)
  • In 2022, we held one shareholders’ meeting and two public investors’ conferences.
  • For major topics we held ad hoc discussions with domestic and foreign institutional investors. 357 phone/physical meetings in total during 2022.
  • Corporate governance and ethical corporate management
  • Legal compliance
  • Technological and R&D innovations
  • Operational achievements and financial performance
  • Risk management
Suppliers

(Providing excellent raw materials of a consistent quality; through close cooperation, we jointly pursue corporate sustainability)

  • General inquiry email address: info@aspeedtech.com
  • Supplier meetings (annually)
  • Supplier audits (annually)
  • Critical supplier’s CSR commitment (annually)
  • Held critical supplier meetings.
  • Completed five audits of critical suppliers and one evaluation of a new supplier.
  • Critical supplier’s CSR commitment response rate 60%.
  • Product quality and customer satisfaction
  • Operational achievements and financial performance
  • Risk management
  • Legal compliance
  • Sustainable supply chain management
Public Welfare Organizations/Academic and Research Organizations

(ASPEED Technology actively interacts with public welfare organizations, academic research organizations, and cooperative partners to fulfill our CSR obligations)

  • General inquiry email address
  • Social participation and public welfare activities (ad hoc)
  • Accumulated contributions through 2022 were NTD13.7982 million
  • Rural underprivileged caring:
    • For a seventh consecutive year we participated in the Global Views Educational Foundation’s “Plant a seed of reading for the children” event by sponsoring reading materials for students in the Taitung area. We had already donated over 17,000 magazines for a total of 20,000 students at 84 schools in 17 townships in Taitung.
    • “Support Program for Teachers without Teaching Certificate” in Taitung
  • Supporting the development of higher education:
    • Launching the 4-year Sunrise Scholarship Program in National Tsing Hua University with estimated budget of NTD1.6 million.
    • Launching the 4-year Junior Chair Professor Sponsorship Program: in National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and National Tsing Hua University with estimated budget of NTD11.52 million. Sponsoring a total of six professors in the two universities in 2022.
  • Compensation and employee care
  • Talent recruitment and retention
  • Response to international organizations and initiatives
  • Technological and R&D innovations
  • Social care and public welfare participation

Main Contact:
Iris Chueh
Deputy Spokesperson & Executive of Sustainability Committee
Tel: +886-3-5751185 #8659