TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture
TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture
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People in the US are tired of working like slaves for companies that don’t view them as an asset. What is even the point of life if all you do is work 90 percent of the time?
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From what I understand, they did a lot of shipping US workers over to Taiwan to “participate” and learn the way it works in Taiwan.
Except that they made almost no preparations for the language barrier, not localizing communications and assigning local individuals to help translate during meetings, but not reducing their workload to the point where the person assigned to translate actually had any time to do so.
Resulting in a lot of confused Americans sitting around in Taiwan learning fuckall.
Seems like this company has forgotten that businesses need employees, we don’t need their business.
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so they finally learned america has a very lazy work culture? lol
good luck moving those plants here without a large automation involvement
>“We want to make this site a successful site and a sustainable site,” according to Richard Liu, director of employee communications and relations at the Arizona site. “Sustainable means that we cannot keep relying on Taiwan sending people here.”
Semiconductor manufacturing isn’t the same as assembling auto parts. Toyota and Hyundai can open car plants in rural areas employing high school grads because the technical skill and tolerance for error are much, much more lenient. My theory is American fabs would require a workforce of highly educated college grads working long stressful hours. That would be very costly, so they have a problem. My gut tells me the federal government is going to be subsidizing this plant’s operations, or giving them special visa programs. Idk, just my educated guess.
If anyone in North America thinks they’re overworked, they should try working in Asia.
They got a $6.5 billion grant, they should be able to hire a overnight shift worker and a daytime shift worker so they don’t force a dam worker to come in the middle of the night or weekends wtf.
Watch American Factory on Netflix if you want to see a documentary that is more or less about the same situation at a Chinese owned manufacturing plant in the US.