Foxconn will hire workers who won't complain and kill themselves: 70% of work will be robots by 2018
Foxconn, a electronics manufacturer in Taiwan, which assembles devices for Canon, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Amazon, and many other companies, plans to purchase an army of robots within three years in order to entrust 70% of all work at its factories to it. Now Foxconn factories in China employ a million people.
Since 2010, Foxconn and Apple has been surrounded by a number of scandals related to cane discipline, working and living conditions in hostels, workers' suicides and mass brawls. To cope with these problems, Foxconn banned workers from suicide and decided to shift most of the work to robots.
The company has been talking about robots since 2010. In 2011, the company promised to purchase a million devices of this type. At that time, the plants were ten thousand units of robotics, and in 2012 it was planned to buy three hundred thousand. In 2014, the head of the company, Terry Guo, said that in the Chinese city of Chengdu, a fully automated factory operates around the clock with the lights off. However, so far everything is tied to a human resource — there are three hundred thousand workers at Changzhou's plant (where Apple products are collected), and the total number of workers at Foxconn factories in China is about a million.
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The head of the company, Terry Guo, promised that within three years robots would perform 70 percent of the work at the company's plants.
Since 2010, Foxconn and Apple has been surrounded by a number of scandals related to cane discipline, working and living conditions in hostels, workers' suicides and mass brawls. To cope with these problems, Foxconn banned workers from suicide and decided to shift most of the work to robots.
The company has been talking about robots since 2010. In 2011, the company promised to purchase a million devices of this type. At that time, the plants were ten thousand units of robotics, and in 2012 it was planned to buy three hundred thousand. In 2014, the head of the company, Terry Guo, said that in the Chinese city of Chengdu, a fully automated factory operates around the clock with the lights off. However, so far everything is tied to a human resource — there are three hundred thousand workers at Changzhou's plant (where Apple products are collected), and the total number of workers at Foxconn factories in China is about a million.
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The head of the company, Terry Guo, promised that within three years robots would perform 70 percent of the work at the company's plants.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/377081/
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