O FT de ontem trazia um delicioso artigo sobre a mudança no Japão, e a falta dela no nosso país, "Japan chip plant sends 'shock' through economy".
O artigo refere o impacte da instalação de uma fábrica de chips da Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company numa região longe das grandes metrópoles, na ilha de Kikuyo nos arrabaldes da prefeitura de Kumamoto.
E a pensar no que aqui costumo escrever sobre a necessidade de investimento directo estrangeiro para nos ajudar a dar saltos de produtividade e romper com redes de compadrio:
"The changes in Kumamoto also offer a microcosm of the broader challenges for Asia's most advanced economy after a long period of stagnant growth and employee wages. From a severe labour shortage to infrastructure constraints, TSMC's arrival is forcing Japan to confront problems that have been simmering for years.
"We call it the TSMC shock, but I think this is a huge opportunity to change the structure of Japanese society and economy," said Kazufumi Onishi, mayor of the city of Kumamoto. "To put it another way, we need this kind of shock to change.""
Agora o impacte nos salários, no emprego (o efeito Flying Geese):
"TSMC posted job adverts in the spring for engineers, offering monthly wages roughly a third higher than the average for college graduates at local manufacturing companies. Its plant in Kumamoto is expected to create 1,700 high-tech professional jobs.
TSMC said salaries were benchmarked against those at similar technology companies to be competitive, adding that it was confident Japan would provide "outstanding recruits".
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But for local businesses, the sudden boost in wages sparked by TSMC has accelerated a trend for younger employees to switch jobs more frequently to seek higher pay and better working conditions amid a shortage of workers. [Moi ici: Quem diria... *alerta de ironia]
Minimum wages in Kumamoto are among the lowest in Japan, and about 40 per cent of its high school graduates seek jobs elsewhere.[Moi ici: Onde é que nós estamos habituados a ver isto na Europa?]
Kongo, a Kumamoto-based manufacturer of storage systems, has lost about 5 per cent of its 300 workers over the past year, some to TSMC and other semiconductor-related companies.
"It's easy to blame TSMC when our employees change jobs," said Toshihiko Tanaka, chief executive of Kongo, who is also chair of the Kumamoto Industrial Federation. "But the movement of employees is an inevitable trend and we need to change our mindset to focus on how we can raise the performance of each individual as our workforce shrinks.""[Moi ici: Se fosse por cá estaria a ouvir um pedido de apoio qualquer, afinal estamos no país do Chapeleiro Louco. Este choque para as empresas incumbentes é a tal dolorosa transição que tem de ocorrer para se passar ao nível seguinte da produtividade]
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