Foxconn Considering Moving Production to Taiwan
Foxconn is reportedly considering moving some of its manufacturing to Taiwan.
Foxconn has been in the press a lot over the last few weeks because of a bout of suicides at one of its factories. The company has given raises; put nets up around the buildings to stop jumpers; hired councilors and exorcists; given more raises; and issued workers with a 'no-suicide' contract (though they took that one back because it was a little insensitive). Today we learn that the company is considering moving some of its operations to Taiwan and other countries. However, it is not immediately clear if the suicides play any role in this decision.
AppleInsider reports that Chinese-language ON.CC broke the news earlier this week, citing sources who attended the annual shareholders meeting of Hon Hai Precision (the parent company of Foxconn). If true, the move would see much of the mainland China operations moved to countries like India, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The Irish Times cites Foxconn head Terry Gou who supposedly told shareholders that the existing China factory model might not be sustainable because of a rise in production costs in China. This, coupled with an economic slowdown in Taiwan, could make the prospect of a move more attractive.
Affecting as many as 800,000 employees, the move would include the Shenzhen location that has been embroiled in controversy as of late. AppleInsider reports that Foxconn and Hon Hai have confirmed none of the information from the translated ON.CC article.
(Apple Insider and Irish Times)

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Hon Hai did not comment or denied? I don't understand your sentence. What is "confirmed none of the information" mean?
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Edit: ok so now you can. A few days ago you can't.
Actually I am very happy about those people getting job in Taiwan.
Hey look guys, a retard!
I would like to know why a country should have the right to stop a company from moving? It is not the place of any government to meddle in the affairs of a private company, with the exception of passing laws requiring adaquate working conditions and fair pay. This is why our country is going into the toilet.
Edit: ok so now you can. A few days ago you can't.
You still can't on Tom's Guide. You can on Tom's Hardware Forum.
That is ridiculous.
"hired councilors and exorcists"
Exorcists? To get rid of the DEMONS?! LOL what a joke.
1st fix - Let them sit in a chair
2nd fix - Let them talk to eachother and build social relationships
3rd fix - Let them work 8 hours if they want more money then allow them to work more - make it a choice. You can have 3 shifts which combined will allow for a total of 24 hours so the factory never closes. Plus it will allow them to employ more people, thus giving more people money helping the local economy.
4th fix - Be more flexable with bathroom breaks and copy the required break/lunch model of the United States
Apply the raises with all 4 fixes above and the suicides will stop. It's not that hard I don't understand why they can't get it right.
Apparently this pattern is quite common in China, Taiwanese companies come in and open up, but once they are successful local startups undercut and then muscle them out.
Companies value shop just like individuals do. We don't want to pay extra for finished goods, and they don't want to pay extra for labor. If Apple started charging $14000 for an iPhone, Motorola would start killing them in sales. When a product is too expensive, it prices itself out of the market... and the same exact rules apply to labor.
If you overcharge your customers, they shop elsewhere. Period.
I'm sure the 8000 FoxConn workers will be ecstatic to be huddled in a ricefield again hoping to grow enough to eat and maybe a little bit to sell. If that option was so great, they wouldn't have started working at FoxConn to begin with.
Ahhhh... Yes, the corporate model: Always chasing cheap labor and vulnerable workers to exploit...
Figgus: Yeah, gosh darn democrats trying to regulate big business... If only BP weren't so over-regulated... When are you Republican douches going to realize that SOMEBODY needs to regulate business into doing what's best for the public, rather than letting corporations regulate themselves, ie: Cut every corner possible, use the cheapest labor, cheapest materials, don't waste money on safety equipment, etc...
The only entertaining part of your rant was the bit where you assumed I was Republican. It gave me a chuckle.
And you can stamp your little feet all you want. If you get unreasonable with a business, it will just move. That's why America's manufacturing base is so completely screwed right now. Haven't you been paying attention?
yeah they should be so thankful that they should start sacrificing virgins @ the altar of foxxconn every month
paying the workers more wont mean an increase in your iPhones and what haves, it means apple and foxxconn execs will make a whole lot less money
and im pretty sure they wouldn't mind working in the rice field growing their own food, sure they wont be making a heck lot of money but hey it gets them by and by, except their farmlands had been seized by the government turned into a development zone so the likes of foxxconn could go and plonk their great big apartment complex/fab plant on, so the only way to feed themselves now is to work for the company that stole the land that was once their to work on, and they call that progress.....