We don’t work in the international hiring arena so this may be old news to some of you. I just read the latest Herman Group enewsletter regarding the Global War for Talent (sorry, no link). Apparently productivity is a real problem overseas (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n
In some countries, notably Mexico and China, the productivity simply isn\u20ac\u2122t there. According to fellow futurist Edward Gordon, \u20ac\u0153the productivity of China\u20ac\u2122s workers is only 14 percent of their United States counterparts<\/strong>.\u20ac\u009d When Joyce spoke at the first Human Capital Conference in Japan, back in 2000, the VP HR for Intel Asia complained that his productivity was one-third that of their US operations.<\/p>\n…<\/p>\n
Advancing technologies address some of these deficits, but they only increase the demand for more highly skilled workers—in short supply. Offshore, though we find the schools in India, Germany, and elsewhere doing better at job-preparation, the training is insufficient to meet the increasing demand<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI have always expected technology to offset the short supply of skilled employees. Perhaps that is an overestimation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We don’t work in the international hiring arena so this may be old news to some of you. I just read the latest Herman Group enewsletter regarding the Global War for Talent (sorry, no link). Apparently productivity is a real problem overseas (emphasis mine): In some countries, notably Mexico and China, the productivity simply isn\u20ac\u2122t there. According to fellow futurist Edward Gordon, \u20ac\u0153the productivity of China\u20ac\u2122s workers is only 14 percent of their United States counterparts.\u20ac\u009d When Joyce spoke at the first Human Capital Conference in Japan, back in 2000, the VP HR for Intel Asia complained that his productivity was one-third that of their US operations. … Advancing technologies… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-gr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":784,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/03\/does-gloomy-weather-impact-productivity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1019,"position":0},"title":"Does Gloomy Weather Impact Productivity?","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"March 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, according to an article on CareerBuilder. 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