Taiwan’s Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said atypical workers made up 6.82% of the country’s 11.63 million employed people in 2026, the lowest share since 2013.
The annual survey, conducted in May and released Friday, counted 793,000 people in part-time, temporary or dispatch-contract work. That was about 6,000 fewer than in 2025. Total employment was 1,000 below the 2025 figure.
Tan Wen-ling, deputy director of the DGBAS Census Department, said the number of temporary and dispatch-contract workers fell, while part-time worker numbers rose.
Among atypical workers, 34.89% cited characteristics of the work as a reason for taking it, and 22.97% said they preferred that employment arrangement. Another 58,000 said they wanted full-time jobs, representing 7.33% of atypical workers. That share was down 1.09 percentage points from a year earlier.
