HACKINTOSH.ORG | Macintosh discussion forums

A new look at the Foxconn factory where they make iPads and Macs

<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p class="intro">Foxconn offers a glimpse of how workers live inside one of company's factories in China, where over 140,000 employees help to make products for Apple.</p> <!--break--> <p>The tour of Foxconn's Shenzhen factory in the south China province of Guangdon was given to Re/code, but with some restrictions. The actual factory floor where iPads (http://www.imore.com/ipad) and Macs (http://www.imore.com/macs) are made was not part of the tour but it did show where workers lived while on the campus, along with its 24/7 support system. <!--break--> The company is still dealing from fallout after a number of Foxconn workers committed suicide in 2010 (http://www.imore.com/apple-saddened-upset-investigating-suicides-foxconn) due in part to poor working conditions. From Re/code (http://recode.net/2015/04/06/where-apple-products-are-born-a-rare-glimpse-inside-foxconns-factory-gates/):</p>

<p>For workers who suffer from clinical depression, Foxconn offers mental health counseling and a 24-hour hotline at its care center. This support system was put in place years after a consulting group, Business for Social Responsibility, originally proposed setting up worker hotlines in 2006 so that employees could report abusive working conditions or seek help, the New York Times reported.</p>

<p>A look at one of the worker's dormitories, which can have up to eight people per room, is also part of the tour:</p>

<p>We entered one first-floor room (without obtaining the occupants' permission, according to our translator) where four roommates occupy identical metal bunk beds, with thin mattress and mosquito netting on top, and a desk and storage underneath. A handful of garments hung from a rod suspended between the beds as a makeshift closet. It's hardly ornate, but it didn't give off a scent of rot, either.</p>

<p>The campus also has amenities such as a swimming pool, an outdoor track, and a main street with fast food restaurants, banks and an Internet cafe where Foxconn workers can play PC games and even watch pornography in private areas.</p> <p>Source: Re/code (http://recode.net/2015/04/06/where-apple-products-are-born-a-rare-glimpse-inside-foxconns-factory-gates/)</p> </div></div></div><img width='1' height='1' src='(http://tipb.com.feedsportal.com/c/33998/f/616881/s/4524c04e/sc/28/mf.gif)' border='0'/><br clear='all'/>

<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]
<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]
<a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"/>[/url]

<img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/a2.img" border="0"/> (http://da.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/a2.htm)<img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/224851280276/u/49/f/616881/c/33998/s/4524c04e/sc/28/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="//feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~4/LyNnRKRCrdE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>

Source: A new look at the Foxconn factory where they make iPads and Macs (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/LyNnRKRCrdE/story01.htm)