The Culture Clash
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wrote on 4 Jun 2023, 12:13 last edited by
Taiwan and the U.S. cultures...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chip-maker-tsmc-needs-hire-100000012.html
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wrote on 4 Jun 2023, 12:38 last edited by
Well, sure. Why does anyone think western corporations invested there to begin with.
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wrote on 4 Jun 2023, 13:24 last edited by
Yet, look at the Japanese and Korean car manufacturers. Seems like they have acclimated to U.S. factories pretty well.
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wrote on 4 Jun 2023, 13:30 last edited by
And the Taiwanese will as well. Kicking and screaming perhaps, but they will.
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wrote on 9 Jun 2023, 01:25 last edited by
Interesting article. My experience with north Asia (Taiwan, Korea, Japan) work culture is that the hours are much longer than the US, but there are a couple of "caveat" - I think that productivity per hour is higher in the US. So, workers in north Asia will be in the office longer, but may not do much more work. Oftentimes, you cannot leave until your immediate boss leaves, and he cannot leave until his boss leaves, so if the top guy stay until 8 pm, everybody below him will be there until then. And #2, it is definitely very seniority based, so yes, it would be very unusual for a young person to question those higher up than himself.