Foxconn, a leading employer in China with more than 3000000 employees had several suicide cases in the industrial campus. Hence as a part of the employee management and safety standards maintenance, safety net were drawn outside the building!
Here's a part of the news from Bloomberg
'The suicides introduced Foxconn to much of the world in the worst terms imaginable—as an industrial monster that treats its workers like machines, leveraging masses of cheap labor, mainly 18-to-25-year-olds from rural areas, to make products like the iPhone at seemingly impossible prices. For Western consumers, the lost lives were an invitation to consider the real cost of their electronic playthings. For the image-conscious companies with which Foxconn does business, including IBM ( <link outdated-removed> ), Cisco ( <link outdated-removed> ), Microsoft ( <link outdated-removed> ), Nokia ( <link outdated-removed> ), Sony, Hewlett-Packard ( <link outdated-removed> ), and Apple ( <link outdated-removed> ), the suicides were a public-relations nightmare and a challenge to offshoring strategies essential to their bottom lines. '
To read more The Man Who Makes Your iPhone - BusinessWeek
From India, Mumbai
1858Here's a part of the news from Bloomberg
'The suicides introduced Foxconn to much of the world in the worst terms imaginable—as an industrial monster that treats its workers like machines, leveraging masses of cheap labor, mainly 18-to-25-year-olds from rural areas, to make products like the iPhone at seemingly impossible prices. For Western consumers, the lost lives were an invitation to consider the real cost of their electronic playthings. For the image-conscious companies with which Foxconn does business, including IBM ( <link outdated-removed> ), Cisco ( <link outdated-removed> ), Microsoft ( <link outdated-removed> ), Nokia ( <link outdated-removed> ), Sony, Hewlett-Packard ( <link outdated-removed> ), and Apple ( <link outdated-removed> ), the suicides were a public-relations nightmare and a challenge to offshoring strategies essential to their bottom lines. '
To read more The Man Who Makes Your iPhone - BusinessWeek
From India, Mumbai
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