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Topic: news Workplace Face Off: Chinese vs. Foreign Employees

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@ Alva

I agree, and it is not just skills. Work ethic is also an issue with many college leavers in China. Their parents might indeed be workaholics, but many young people do not want to work, they just want to turn up and collect a salary.
There is also a lack of basic business savvy.
Even in manufacturing there is an inability to work smarter, they just work for longer hours. I saw a recent documentary about a manufacturing company that is leaving China. One of the issues is that the UK workers were much more productive, even if more expensive.
People opened factories in China because labor was cheap, not because people worked harder. Labor in China is now 5x the cost of 10 years ago. In other industries too, the premium pay of foreigners is now a smaller premium than before.

May 23, 2012 04;48
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