Engineers in the global semiconductor industry typically have considerable control over their work. Processes are pretty straightforward, sequential, and logical – and satisfying for an honest day’s work.
However, due to the ongoing global economic downturn, many of these engineers are rapidly losing control of more of their professional lives. Caught like the rest of the world in a recession, they are losing control of what work they are assigned to do, how they do it, in what sequence, by when and with whom.
