The online job bank released the results of the poll on office workers' dream employers Saturday. The survey was conducted April 10-30, with a total of 1,562 valid samples being collected. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.

Analyzing the results of the survey, Wu said that "high salary, good benefits, and broad opportunities" are three of the main reasons office workers in Taiwan want to work for foreign enterprises based in the country.

According to the survey, 61 percent of the respondents who said they want to work for a foreign company in Taiwan said they believe they will have a better future working for such a firm.

Meanwhile, "good benefits" was mentioned by 58 percent of the office workers who said they want to work for a foreign company, and "high wages" was mentioned by 51 percent.

The survey also showed that 47.5 percent of the respondents said that they want to work for a U.S.-based company, while 23.7 percent said they want to work for a Japanese company.

Asked about their "dream employer," 20.4 percent of the respondents working in the technology sector said they want to work for U.S.-based IBM Corp., while 19.93 percent mentioned Japan-based Sony Corp., the world's leading electronic appliances producer, and 13.93 percent said Microsoft Corp.

Meanwhile, 32.3 percent of the white-collar employees working in the financial sector said they would like to work for the American Express Bank, 30.1 percent said Citibank, and 12.8 percent said HSBC.

Several other foreign companies, including IKEA, Nike, the hypermarket chain operator Carrefour, the Yahoo! Group, and Google, were mentioned by some respondents as their dream employer.