I'd love to hear more. I was an engineer in the semiconductor biz many years, we were constantly driven to develop more efficient ways to get the job done. Just when things seemed ship shape, there would be 5%-10%-20% layoff depending upon future bookings and those of us who remained had to work even harder to make up for the lost productivity. I saw 31 layoffs at my facility in 25 years. We had flavor of the month efficiency training and many other employee improvement programs from the early 1990s on. Most of that was worthless and a waste of time.
I'd love to hear more. I was an engineer in the semiconductor biz many years, we were constantly driven to develop more efficient ways to get the job done. Just when things seemed ship shape, there would be 5%-10%-20% layoff depending upon future bookings and those of us who remained had to work even harder to make up for the lost productivity. I saw 31 layoffs at my facility in 25 years. We had flavor of the month efficiency training and many other employee improvement programs from the early 1990s on. Most of that was worthless and a waste of time.
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