Chang Pei-chi, manpower planning director at the Council for Economic Planning and Development, declines to attribute this phenomenon wholly to discrimination against securities firm employees; to some extent it has resulted from cost-cutting throughout industry due to the recent economic downturn.
對此現象，經濟建設委員會人力處長張丕繼認為，這倒不完全是大家「歧視」證券業的人，而是多少受了最近整體經濟不景氣，各種產業都在「節流」的影響。