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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by Groxx on Monday August 08, 2011 @01:22AM (#2858903)
How many of those 11.5/100k have been done at work, though? The 17 and this quote seem to imply those are just the ones happening at the buildings themselves:

>To pacify its increasingly restive workers, Foxconn has repeatedly bumped up their wages, improved facilities, provided counselling and swathed its factories with nets to catch anyone leaping from a window.

And, for comparison, the WHO gives numbers that are closer to each other, though still surprising individually: http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suicider...

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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by free on Monday August 08, 2011 @05:02AM (#2859328)
IIRC, foxconn provides on campus housing for the workers, so everything happens at the plant
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Re:Robots Don't Complain or Demand Higher Wages or Kill Them... by Groxx on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @04:40PM (#2865513)
That rings a bell, thanks! I do wonder why the (relatively) extreme measures exist if there isn't a problem, though. Straight PR could explain, but I find it a bit unlikely.
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