Well, one things for sure, they’ll not need nets around the building to catch workers jumping to their deaths because of exhaustion/anxiety.
From the article:
"Foxconn is a massive company that walks a political tightrope. It is based in Taiwan yet does much of its manufacturing in Mainland China. It received massive amounts of bad publicity from suicides among its workers and for alleged child labor exploitation. Political considerations are part of its daily operations."
The suicide rate at Foxconn, even at its highest in 2010/2011 was a mere 0.75 per 100,000 workers per year, while the suicide rate in US Ivy League Universities in the same age cohorts was 11 per 100,000 per year. There was only a sustained propaganda campaign mounted against Foxconn by Anti-Apple competitors that even brought up the suicide issue. The TOTAL number of suicides at Foxconn during that period among a work force of that grew from 750,000 to 1.5 million workers during that period was just 18 workers who killed themselves in an 18 month period spread over 27 assembly plants in 22 cities. Workers in Foxconn plants were less inclined to kill themselves than were people in China's general population which has an overall suicide rate of approximately 17 per 100,000 per year. There is no story here except that which is kept alive by propagandists.
The CURRENT suicide rate among Foxconn workers in 2013, 2014, and 2015 is remarkable as there was exactly ONE suicide among 1.6 million workers in 2013, ZERO in 2014, and ZERO again in 2015. The number has yet to be reported for 2016.
As for child labor, that is another false meme. Apple's contracts require that if an underage worker is discovered working on their products in ANY of the subcontractors, that subcontractor is REQUIRED to pay for that underage worker's education through graduation from a university or age 26, including room and board, which ever occurs first. That is a huge dis-incentive for hiring underage workers. Apple has actually pulled multi-billion dollar contracts from sub-contractors who have egregiously violated the under-age provisions of their contracts and awarded that work to higher bidders who guaranteed they would meet those provisions! External audits of the employees of Apple's subcontractors have found just 116 underage workers, with most of those using either forged or borrowed ID to get hired, over a period of years. All of these underage workers were offered the paid educations.