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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
And the "anti-suicide nets" approach is an interesting take on solving what seems to be a problem that perhaps might be worth looking into, by any company - let alone one of the biggest companies in the world ?
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That was another matter. Foxconn has a very low suicide rate per employee. Much lower than most European companies. And much lower than society at large. They have a million workers, look at it in perspective. Young people are far away from their families, they group together according to the province they are from -- and those worker cliques tend to mistreat outsiders. So there are plenty of personal reasons for suicide, not the work environment.
Conditions are far from perfect, but they are fine. And they have improved so much since I visited China the first time. This hype is just plain nonsense. I see it every month. These days, workers have a choice of where they work, there is a shortage. This employer is not paying enough? They just go next door.