[anthropocene_x]

Corporate America would love to normalize this kind of work norms here.

The birth rate in countries like Korea, Taiwan, China is recently dropping too low. Not enough taxpayers. Governments there are having a hard time understanding why, and giving some childcare subsidies to reverse it.

[dfwgator]

I wonder how many ChiCom moles work in these Taiwanese companies?

[Captainpaintball]

Toyota couldn’t open a factory in America because the workers were not smart enough.

[Dr. Sivana]

speakin about Taiwan’s competitiveness compared to the U.S., said that “if [a machine] breaks down at one in the morning, in the U.S. it will be fixed in the next morning. But in Taiwan, it will be fixed at 2 a.m.”

I work for an international tech company. If a machine breaks down at 1 AM, it might well be up again at 2 AM, but if U.S. standards to maintenance were used, it would not have broken down at all.

[Nervous Tick]

>> he struggled with language barriers, long hours, and a strict hierarchy.

I have done extensive work at TSMC fabs in Taiwan.

They DO have a work ethic and a chain of command.

The article says that like it’s a bad thing.

But you know what? INSIDE Taiwan fabs where you KNOW they mostly speak Chinese, we NEVER EVER ran into a language barrier. Taiwanese English is overall excellent — and not just in the semiconductor industry.

So... I dunno... maybe just maybe wokie “Bruce” doesn’t communicate in English so well!

[glorgau]

> rigid, counterproductive hierarchies at the company

Those “counterproductive” hierarchies haves stopped them from dominating the global market in semiconductor manufacturing.

[PGR88]

One of my first jobs was working for Taiwanese. I wouldn’t ever do it again. They follow a very similar corporate and work structure to Japan

I understand why TSMC is successful, but this article gave me flashbacks.

Americans will sacrifice and will work hard to achieve a goal, but I doubt Taiwanese will be able to figure out how to do this.