Foxconn plans to increase its work force to 1.3 million. From Agence-France Presse:
Taiwan IT giant Foxconn plans to hire up to 400,000 new employees in China over the coming year, partly to keep up production despite cutting maximum overtime hours, officials said Thursday.
The company, a major supplier to brands such as Apple, Dell and Nokia, said the expansion plan, coming after a series of suicides this year, will boost its work force to 1.3 million.
“We’re not sure if that can be done, but that’s the direction we’re aiming for,” Foxconn spokesman Arthur Huang told AFP.
The planned increase will come about mostly in the central provinces of China as the company seeks to scale back the size of its biggest facility in southern Shenzhen city, he said.
See images from a recent company-sponsored staff rally at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, via CDT.
