I’m from this state and staying closs to the Factory. All the points mentioned in the article is true
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.
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.
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
Those are rookie numbers, amazon may run out of us workers next year because they burnt out of so much of the working population who thought they could handle the job.
And with unemployment rates officially at record lows they are screwed state side unless they change working conditions.
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).
It is possible to hardcode functions into a chip; that probably doesn’t count as software.
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.
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
I’m from this state and staying closs to the Factory. All the points mentioned in the article is true
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.
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.
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
Even China struggles with turnover. Like, half of a factory simply not returning after the CNY holiday isn’t unusual.
Those are rookie numbers, amazon may run out of us workers next year because they burnt out of so much of the working population who thought they could handle the job.
And with unemployment rates officially at record lows they are screwed state side unless they change working conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/22/amazon-workers-shortage-leaked-memo-warehouse
Amazon will only survive if they get more warehouse robots.
I don’t think “iphone assembler” and “software engineer” are really hiring from the same talent pool, that doesn’t make sense.
Software engineer isn’t the only part of IT. It’s a small part
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).
India’s population will surpass China’s soon. They have enough people without a college education who will want to work in factories.
The next major move would be probably towards northern states which don’t have strong unions
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
Solution is to provide childcare & increase wage in factories and retain workers or hire male employees
I think states can also help by providing cheaper electricity, lower property taxes etc