• g7droid@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    I’m from this state and staying closs to the Factory. All the points mentioned in the article is true

    1. Foxconn will never achieve their chinese efficiency here because unlike IT industries manufacturing based ones have many unions which try to fight for workers right.

    2. Most of the plant assembly workers are atleast graduate. Many upwards of 80% know English and they wont be able to work 12 hours straight, as many of their peers are just working 8 to 9 hours per day in other IT industriers.

    3. The pay is really low compared to lucrative IT, so most of the womens working here aged 21 - 26 won’t work here after their marriage. So you have constant pool is skilled employees leaving each year and their is a constant need to train new set of employees.

    So unless makes a new strategy for their Indian factories instead of trying to replicate the same from china, these problems will remain the same

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      11 months ago

      Foxconn will never achieve their chinese efficiency here because unlike IT industries manufacturing based ones have many unions which try to fight for workers right.

      The next major move would be probably towards northern states which don’t have strong unions

      Most of the plant assembly workers are atleast graduate. Many upwards of 80% know English and they wont be able to work 12 hours straight, as many of their peers are just working 8 to 9 hours per day in other IT industriers.

      Most of them would be from tier 10 colleges and wouldn’t be working here if they themselves got jobs in the IT sector, so it would be unrealistic to expect the same level of salaries as IT sector

      So again, the solution is to move towards northern states which are relatively less educated & have less IT sector penetration

      The pay is really low compared to lucrative IT, so most of the womens working here aged 21 - 26 won’t work here after their marriage. So you have constant pool is skilled employees leaving each year and their is a constant need to train new set of employees.

      Solution is to provide childcare & increase wage in factories and retain workers or hire male employees

      So unless makes a new strategy for their Indian factories instead of trying to replicate the same from china, these problems will remain the same

      I think states can also help by providing cheaper electricity, lower property taxes etc

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      11 months ago

      Even China struggles with turnover. Like, half of a factory simply not returning after the CNY holiday isn’t unusual.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think “iphone assembler” and “software engineer” are really hiring from the same talent pool, that doesn’t make sense.

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          11 months ago

          Your first statement is correct; your second statement is incorrect, considering that large portions of electronic hardware are computer electronic hardware, and almost all modern computer electronic hardware doesn’t work without software^(1).

          1. It is possible to hardcode functions into a chip; that probably doesn’t count as software.
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      11 months ago
      1. Most of the plant assembly workers are atleast graduate. Many upwards of 80% know English and they wont be able to work 12 hours straight, as many of their peers are just working 8 to 9 hours per day in other IT industriers.

      India’s population will surpass China’s soon. They have enough people without a college education who will want to work in factories.