Posted on 03/08/2014 6:51:24 PM PST by Astute
AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin, Texas, technology company says 20 of its employees were aboard the Malaysia Airlines plane that went missing over the South China Sea.
Jacey Zuniga, a spokeswoman for Freescale Semiconductor, says 12 Malaysian and 8 Chinese employees are "confirmed passengers." She says no American citizen Freescale employees were on the flight.
ugh that’s bad
That’s terrible, but why does a US company have that many foreign employees?
Never heard of the h1b visa for skilled tech workers? Its an ongoing issue in my industry.
A reasonable answer, which may be the case for this, is that they are supplying parts to Chinese electronics manufacturers (board level), and the support office is in Malaysia.
The reality is that Texas Instruments has a plant in Malaysia. As to why that plant isn't in the USA, while chip manufacturing is indeed _very_ hazardous work, the regulations on it go beyond reasonable now in the US, not to mention energy costs (for both manufacturing and transport to customers).
“why does a US company have that many foreign employees?”
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They probably work in an Asian plant.
Don’t know? Here is a link to their website. http://www.freescale.com/
I am wondering if there is a connection between plane disappearance and perhaps a scheduled business trip.
i have heard of corpoarte espoinage..but what about a competitor of this semi conductor company taking out its competition to even the playing field for them? I have no idea how competitive that field is.
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Seems like a trivial number to me.
Apple has 23,000 overseas employees.
Ford has 120,000 overseas employees.
ExxonMobil has 25,000 overseas employees.
I don’t post here often but when I read this something inside me said hmmm. 20 employees on same flight with semiconductor knowledge. Probably a coincidence....
Otherwise it's all good.
> A reasonable answer, which may be the case for this, is that they are supplying parts to Chinese electronics manufacturers (board level), and the support office is in Malaysia.
The reality is that Texas Instruments has a plant in Malaysia. As to why that plant isn’t in the USA, while chip manufacturing is indeed _very_ hazardous work, the regulations on it go beyond reasonable now in the US, not to mention energy costs (for both manufacturing and transport to customers).
I’m just thinking out loud here but does TI manufacuture any of the chips found in the electronic voting machines?
Rather meant the company mentioned not TI
loose lips sink political parties...
One big WORKERS COMPENSATION claim....
A big/huge loss of productive and knowledgeable employees...
I would bet that they were not 20 upper-level decision makers for Freescale. Sounds ghoulish, I know, but most companies I’ve worked for in the past 30 years had strict policies about upper management traveling together, for just this reason.
Can you imagine the future of Freescale Semiconductor if it turns out that a large portion of their Board of Directors was on that airplane?
you are kidding right?
18,00 worldwide employees. seriously, don’t people understand that business is global?
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