For several years, working conditions of Foxconn workers have always been challenged despite the continuous controls that Apple ensures to carry out in the facilities of the company are manufactured where devices designed in Cupertino. Several have been documentaries that have shown the shames of this company where the labour and health conditions leave much to be desired, without taking into account the long innings of work without a break and the suicides of employees. To try to avoid further problems and to be able to clean up their image, Foxconn takes a few months installing robots in their factories, robots that logically the workmanship is replacing.
A few months ago we inform you of the retrenchment that had made the company in the facilities where its headquarters, where 110,000 workers had spent slightly more than 50,000. But Foxconn not has modernized only the facilities central but is renewing all which has spread in the country and to day of today already has of 40,000 robots, according to reports DigiTimes. The idea of replacing labor with robots is none other than to expand production by reducing costs and without establishing work shifts.
But those not are them unique reasons, since apparently in them last years, each time is more complicated find personal young that want to work in Foxconn, in addition to the increase of them costs salariares, that in them last years is have tripped due to the growth economic that has suffered the country in the last decade. Is clear that Foxconn not will be the first or will be the last company Chinese that has begun to replace labor by robots, what not know of time are the consequences that can have in the economy of the country. Time will tell it.
