Several years, the working conditions of Foxconn workers have always been in question despite the continuous controls that Apple claims to carry out at the company's facilities where the devices designed in Cupertino are manufactured. Several have been the documentaries that have shown the shame of this company where the working and sanitary conditions leave much to be desired, without taking into account the long shifts of work without rest and the suicides of employees. To try to avoid more problems and to be able to wash its image, Foxconn has been installing robots in its factories for a few months, robots that are logically replacing labor.
A few months ago we informed you of the reduction in personnel that the company had made in the facilities where its main headquarters are located, where from 110.000 workers it had gone to just over 50.000. But Foxconn has not only modernized the central facilities but is renovating all those that it has throughout the country and today it already has 40.000 robots, according to DigiTimes. The idea of replacing labor with robots is none other than being able to expand production by reducing costs and without establishing work shifts.
But those are not the only reasons, since apparently in recent years, it is increasingly difficult to find young staff who want to work at Foxconn, in addition to the increase in salary costs, which in recent years have exploded due to the economic growth that the country has suffered in the last decade. It is clear that Foxconn will not be the first nor will it be the last Chinese company that has begun to replace labor with robots, what we do not know at the moment are the consequences that they may have on the country's economy. Time will tell.