that too, but your mgmt must careful of cost overruns.
At when I was at seagate it was around the time when the IT boom
was in full rage but funny thing was they were retrenching, closing
plants in singapore opening up in batam and malaysia. I think any
other manufacturing company would have thought seagate was nuts and
done the reverse even I was puzzled, retrenching when business was
hot? They should be recruiting.
But as we all see 1-2yrs later the fallout up to today, I guess
they were positioning themselves, lowering their manpower overheads
in advance for such a likelihood. Now thats what I call forward
planning. 