Today in the 1990s as Taiwan takes on the social dimensions of a developed country, the career of civil servant, with a venerable history in China going back over a thousand years, has also entered a new transitional phase in response to internal and external pressures. Many civil service stereotypes--nine-to-five image, lifelong tenure, cliquishness, all-round expertise, lack of individual freedom--are undergoing a quiet transformation.
時至民國八十年，台灣社會粗具已開發國家規模之際，公務員這個具有千年歷史的古老行業，在內、外衝擊下，也進入了「轉型期」﹘﹘朝九晚五、鐵飯碗、官僚、通才、沒有個人自由… …，許多公務員予人的「刻板印象」，已悄悄改變。