The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is one of the world’s most valuable companies, producing unfathomable numbers of advanced computer chips the modern world relies on. Most of them are produced in a single factory in Taiwan, something the company is seeking to change. In May 2020, TSMC announced plans to open two plants on the outskirts of.
The interviewees reported several occasions when employees quit over disagreements about work expectations, especially expectations to work outside of normal hours. Taiwanese managers sometimes call employees into work in the middle of the night for work emergencies. In Phoenix, more than half of the 2,200 workers were imported from Taiwan, despite the company’s pledge to create 6,000 jobs. It plans to move this ratio toward more local hires after the completion of the factory, according to the“We want to make this site a successful site and a sustainable site,” Liu said. “Sustainable means that we cannot keep relying on Taiwan sending people here.”