Dell fires in Texas, hires in Taiwan (product designers)

[DaveSimmons]

It looks like Dell is cutting costs by moving the design of their products to Taiwan. At this rate in a few years Michael Dell will just have a one-room office in his mansion while the rest of the company is in Taiwan, India and China.

DigiTimes artcile

According to a story from Dow Jones Newswires on The Wall Street Journal website, Dell Computer has laid off 140 employees from its product development group in Texas. Although the move was described as ?part of the routine ebb-and-flow of employment at a major corporation,? it comes at a time when Dell is aggressively hiring for its new design center in Taiwan.

 

[eakers]

well what do you expect?

everyone wants computers mega cheap now a days.

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Time to stop buying from Dell.... oh wait... I never bought Dell computers in the first place. 😱

 

[Piano Man]

Its not like they're using sweatshops in Taiwan, so I have no problem with this.

 

[Pepsei]

Better Taiwan then crappy Chinese techs.

I assume that they have the knowledge to do the job and take a pay check less than what people are getting here. What would you do if you are the CEO and you can save money and boost profit this way?

"Ricer" won't be a word used to describe just cars pretty soon.

 

[fastz28]

Most of the parts are manufactured there already, so it make sense to design them there as well.

This is the way of the future, global economy.

 

[SherEPunjab]

Does it bother me? a bit, but only now because i still think the unemployment rate is pretty high even though people don't agree with that. but the fact that it goes to free taiwan or democratic india wouldn't bother me (the Indian quality control i would be concerned about tho), but as he said at least it isn't china.

 

[0roo0roo]

not as if dell had apple level designers anyways. "dude that dell is awesome looking" isn't something people say🙂

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
It looks like Dell is cutting costs by moving the design of their products to Taiwan. At this rate in a few years Michael Dell will just have a one-room office in his mansion while the rest of the company is in Taiwan, India and China.

most of sales is getting moved to the philippines and panama, a couple of my buds are going over there to train them

 

[Peetoeng]

Originally posted by: SherEPunjab
Does it bother me? a bit, but only now because i still think the unemployment rate is pretty high even though people don't agree with that. but the fact that it goes to free taiwan or democratic india wouldn't bother me (the Indian quality control i would be concerned about tho), but as he said at least it isn't china.

My taiwanese friend told me last month that unemployment was rising in Taiwan because many manufacturing facilities were relocated to China. Perhaps, in 10 years people in China would be complaining about losing jobs, but to where?

Many german automakers have manufacturing facilities in South Africa--the number one exporter of steel. It makes sense, stay close the source of raw material and cheap labors.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I'm not outraged by this myself, it's just interesting and a little sad to see that US workers are no longer "competitive" even at the design level. And in a few years Dell will find itself competing against the people in Taiwan who think the CEO position can be found more affordably there too 😀 🙁

 

[SherEPunjab]

Originally posted by: Peetoeng

Originally posted by: SherEPunjab
Does it bother me? a bit, but only now because i still think the unemployment rate is pretty high even though people don't agree with that. but the fact that it goes to free taiwan or democratic india wouldn't bother me (the Indian quality control i would be concerned about tho), but as he said at least it isn't china.

My taiwanese friend told me last month that unemployment was rising in Taiwan because many manufacturing facilities were relocated to China. Perhaps, in 10 years people in China would be complaining about losing jobs, but to where?

Many german automakers have manufacturing facilities in South Africa--the number one exporter of steel. It makes sense, stay close the source of raw material and cheap labors.

it makes economic sense, but call me picky, if i'm plopping 60-80k on a German luxury car, i want that thing made in GERMANY. Not the U.S., not Mexico (like most 'lesser' German autos are *cough* Jetta, Beetle *cough*, and not S. A.)