Re:Crowded dorms,no flush toilets and food crawling with wor...
by sokoloff on Thursday December 30, 2021 @02:38PM
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It looks like the average rate is 97 per million per year in China. Foxconn employs around 350K in China (other posters are claiming 1M, but I took the most conservative figure I found).
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.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_China#Statistics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides#Analysis