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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by DanBC on Sunday March 28, 2021 @07:50AM (#26609546)
All buildings that allow access to the roof should have suicide nets or tall fencing.

You should compare rates in those factories with similar sized factories in the US -- as far as I can tell the rates are similar.

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Re:A professor declined a $60K research award from Google by throwawayprc99 on Sunday March 28, 2021 @09:43AM (#26610329)
I'd love to see data for that. Do you work for Apple? Amazon warehouses, as notorious as they are for working conditions, don't even have a suicide problem. Note that the nets were installed reactively:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

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