From makes several years, them conditions labour of them workers of Foxconn always have State in fabric of trial despite them continuous controls that Apple ensures perform in the installations of the company where is manufactured them 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. For treat of avoid more problems and for to wash his image, Foxconn takes ones months installing robots in their factories, some robots that logically is replacing it labor.
Makes ones months you inform of the reduction of personal that had made the company in them facilities where is located their headquarters main, where of 110,000 workers is had last to little more than 50,000. But Foxconn has not only modernized central facilities but that it is renovating all that has spread in the country and today already has 40,000 robots, according to DigiTimes. The idea of replace the labor by robots not is another that can expand the production reducing costs and without set shifts of work.
But those aren’t the only reasons, apparently in recent years, increasingly it is harder to find young staff who want to work at Foxconn, in addition to the increase of the costs you salariares, which in recent years have soared due to the economic growth that the country has suffered in the last decade. It is clear that Foxconn will not be the first nor will it be the last Chinese company that has begun to replace labor with robots, what we don’t know at the moment are the consequences that can have on the economy of the country. The time it will say.
