A large chunk of ASMLs workforce is in the US actually
Comment on TSMC Arizona struggles to overcome vast differences between Taiwanese and US work culture
Damage@feddit.it 5 weeks agoAren’t the machines TSMC uses made in the Netherlands? They’re the only ones who can get down to that size, and they do it working 36 hours a week…
TheStar@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 5 weeks ago
My brother worked for such a Dutch company (ASM) and often got sent overseas to supervise the setting up of the production lines with these machines.
He mentioned when he’d get sent to Asia, the workers would make sure to get it done over a weekend, while implementing the same setup would take 2 to 3 weeks in the US. In part that was due to the working conditions mentioned, but also simple lack of planning in case of the latter (things would grind down to a haalt because certain changes would need to be made, and the person responsible for the decision wouldn’t respond for hours or days, etc).
Side note: while 36 hour work weeks are common in the Netherlands, 40 hours is still the norm in my experience.