Tag: Foxconn
Foxconn Discontinues Suicide Compensation, Relocating Production
Foxconn announced yesterday at their annual shareholder meeting that the company is discontinuing its suicide compensation program. Foxconn management said the move is an effort to raise morale and decrease the number of suicde attempts. Foxconn has been getting heat over the past few months due to poor working conditions. Until recently, factory workers were being [...]
Foxconn Employees Getting a Raise
The widely reported suicide string at the Foxconn plant in China has given the company and its partners – Apple, HP, Dell and others a black eye. Apple stepped in to help and others are investigating the situation. It seems that public pressure from news reports and possible private pressure from companies like Apple have caused [...]
Steve Jobs Videos from D8 Conference
The D8 conference is put together by the Wall Street Journal and hosted by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. It is billed as a time for the leaders of the tech world to sit down with a couple of tech journalists to answer questions about the issues they are involved in at the time. One [...]
Apple to Pay Foxconn Employees
Apple is reportedly going to be directly paying Foxconn employees who are working to assemble Apple products for the Chinese manufacturing plant in Shenzhen, China. If true, this is a good step; one we called for previously. For background –Apple, HP and Dell partner with the Foxconn plant where more than a dozen people have [...]
Apple, Dell and HP Release Statements about Foxconn Suicides
We previously reported the suicides and terrible conditions at the Chinese Foxconn factory which supplies Apple, Dell and HP with a lot of their products. Since then the number of suicide attempts has risen with 3 more this week bringing the total number to 13 jumpers and 10 deaths. One of those attempts came after [...]
The Intangible Cost of Our Apple Fascination
I love my iPad. I couldn’t imagine a day without my iPhone. My kids love their iPod Touches. We don’t own a single Mac desktop or notebook, but I have friends who love their MacBooks. Since getting my iPad one of the question often asked is How much did that cost?†I respond by quietly [...]
