Do you want to work until retirement in a factory like Foxconn? It's not easy to think about!
Foxconn, propping up the OEM industry, has its own factories all over the country, and it is still a town-style scale. Foxconn, which first landed in Shenzhen, lived in a six-person dormitory because it included food and housing. It is a comprehensive canteen, working 10 hours a day. Such a working environment has attracted a large number of mainlanders to come to Shenzhen to work.
A few years ago, Foxconn frequently recruited a large number of laborers, and sometimes there was a referral fee for introducing others to work, so many people called their fellow villagers. Foxconn recruits a large number of laborers to expand its productivity, because Foxconn is mainly engaged in manufacturing and OEM, and manufacturing enterprises are labor-intensive enterprises. There will be many products and many production lines that need to be processed. It needs a young workforce to do it.
Do you think it's possible for a factory like this to work until retirement? It's not easy to think about.
[1] The assembly lines in the workshop are all people who need better physical strength, and they can't change their strength when they get older.
Foxconn is no different from enterprises and institutions. They sit in the office every day, relying on their brainpower to engage in some relatively high-level jobs, such as work in state-owned enterprises, which can be done until retirement, because various security benefits are relatively complete, and working at Foxconn is a Need to work in the workshop, OEM for other brands, and make products. Some workshops need to stand for a long time, which consumes more physical strength, easy to age, and not easy to work until retirement. Generally, when you are in your 40s, you will switch to other jobs. Or upgrade to management, it is unlikely to work at the grassroots level until retirement.
[2] Foxconn's personnel turnover is very large, and a group of people will be replaced after a period of time. In the factories of the foundry industry, the employees of the assembly line are generally employed for a short period of time.
Foxconn has been recruiting labor for a long time, and people are hired almost every day, and some people leave, even if they stay at Foxconn until the director or management, they still need to be on duty, but they don’t have to stay on the assembly line for a long time, and they can move flexibly, but they are still stuck in the same situation. In the factory, after a long time, people will become numb, and they will not know how the outside world is turning. If they cannot find comfort in their hearts, they will want to leave and engage in other jobs. In the future, with the advent of the machine age, many laborers will be laid off, or will be transformed into other types of work.
The future of such OEM enterprises will be gradually replaced by the machine industry. At that time, fewer people may be used to manage many robots. The era of labor will be transformed into the era of mental machines. Maybe one day in the future, people will be able to freely control You can enjoy your own work before you retire. This is the life that people yearn for in the future.