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Foxconn’s Worker Suicide Solution: Bring In More Robots

Foxconn's Worker Suicide Solution: Bring In More RobotsFoxconn Technology Group — the company that assembles iPads and iPhones in hellish Chinese factories that have had at least 13 workers commit suicide — might have found a solution to its disgruntled worker problem. Over the next three years, the company will increase the number of robots on factory assembly lines from about 10,000 to 1 million. One analyst told Reuters, "Rising salary costs should be the key reason why Foxconn is doing this."

Well, that's one way of handling the problem.

[Reuters; image via AP]

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