Tuesday, July 17, 2012

FoxConn Style Outsourcing

Deutsch: Foxconn Logo
Deutsch: Foxconn Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
When companies like Apple outsource production, they send it off to FoxConn that employs people who do great work for cheap. But what does FoxConn do when it decides to outsource? Looks like there is a plan.

Migrant Workers in China Face Competition from Robots
Foxconn, which employs nearly one million low-wage workers to hand-assemble electronic gadgets for Apple, Nintendo, Intel, Dell, Nokia, Microsoft, Samsung, and Sony..... the Taiwan-based manufacturing giant would add up to one million industrial robots to its assembly lines inside of three years
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