Following the recent wave of suicide are alarmingly in the factory where the iPhone is manufactured, Jobs said that Foxconn is not a miserable workshop. They have restaurants, swimingpools and cinemas … But it’s still a plant. He went on to say: “Foxconn is not a sweatshop.”
400,000 people work there. The suicide rate is lower than the United States. He confirmed however that Apple is closely monitoring the conditions of work and remain vigilant.
Foxconn has raised pay among Chinese workers by around 30% in a move which it claims have been on the cards for a while, and have nothing to do with the recent string of suicides.