With 350K employees, you’d expect about 34 suicides per year if their rate was at the national average. At 3 a month, yeah, I’d put up nets as well.
While I’m sure the reporting doesn’t tag every worker who happens to commit suicide as a Foxconn suicide, I don’t see evidence that the Foxconn suicide rate is higher than the national average and sibling comments and Wikipedia (sourcing ABC News and the Economist) are claiming it’s lower.
The nightmares you describe might very well be a big improvement over normal life in that country.
Blaming Apple for a statistically average rate of suicide is madness; they make phones, they aren’t all-powerful
They promised us they would fix it and they didn’t. It appears they didn’t even try because all of the conditions outlined in this article would have become very obvious if they managed to do the absolute bare minimum of analysis by say visiting these locations.
The accusation here is that Apple lied and they knew about this and that’s not ok.
Let’s be honest here, it’s a bit of net. “Dedicated anti suicide infrastructure” Jesus Christ pull the other one.
I’m curious how many people would have to commit suicide before you’d splash out on some nets? I think one would do it for me…
>This very clearly isn’t some kind of regular workplace with otherwise reasonable conditions.
Or maybe "suicide + apple factory" gets clicks/comments (like this article/thread), leading apple to install preventative measures to make it look like they're doing something. I seriously would still like to see statistics before jumping to conclusions either way.
There is very clearly a big problem here. That isn’t click bait.
I see what you did there :)
This very clearly isn’t some kind of regular workplace with otherwise reasonable conditions.
What has been repeated described there over many years and many accounts is by every reasonable definition a human rights and moral nightmare.
Just waving this away as the “normal” course of business seems gross