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.
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.
you are kidding right?
18,00 worldwide employees. seriously, don’t people understand that business is global?
Freescale is headquartered in Austin, Texas with design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations in more than 20 countries. We are driven by a culture of innovation, quality and results – an engagement worldwide of more than 18,000 employees. We are leaders in embedded processing solutions – making the world a smarter place for all of us.
I checked out their web site, they are worldwide, with companies in Israel, India, Malaysia, China, etc etc
The are a divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola for 2004. They have 23000 employees. I would bet a significant chunk of the employees are third country nationals.
It’s a large company with locations all over. They could very well have been here for training or a conference or something.
Thats funny. There are lots of Foreign works that work for American companies in the USA.
We have 50+ employees in the Philippines. Would you rather have them come here, act like spoiled illegals and vote Dummycrat?
On the bright side, might be a good time to send them a resume! /sarc
Doesn’t really sound like an “American” company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants
According to this they only have two plants in Asia. But in my own experience you can hire competent foreign engineers at a fraction of US wages.
Also, fewer US born engineers are graduating each year and more and more foreign engineers are graduating from US colleges. American kids, on average, no longer want to do the work required and/or do not have sufficient background from our public school system. (But, they know all about gender studies and “fisting.”)
We have tens of thousands of offshore employees. Hate to be the one to break it to you.
Because Americans won’t work for slave wages?
“That’s terrible, but why does a US company have that many foreign employees?”
Sad thing for those people.
The only thing American about many of these global companies is the name. They want us and our military to be patriotic, but they no longer have a clue what it means.
I used to be a corporatist when USA CEOs were patriots who put America and Americans first. I see them now as opportunists willing to sell out the USA and our national sovereignty because it gets in the way of their anti-conservative liberal globalist movement. The only thing many of these global corporations want from America are their fingers in US taxpayer handouts.
Because they work for Americans in China for dirt cheap wages and Obamas gov't vacations off their profits.