CCTV survey reveals the reasons for Foxconn’s frequent jumping off buildings: collective anxiety in the social transition period, the cruel survival rules of enterprises, the lack of social and cultural support, and various realistic contradictions breed and gather in this most typical foundry enterprise until a nuclear fusion is triggered.
According to CCTV’s "Economic Half-hour" report: In the early morning of May 21st, another Foxconn employee jumped to his death. Before him, nine people had jumped from the building, resulting in seven deaths and two injuries. It may be an accident for an employee to jump off a building, but in less than half a year, Foxconn has had ten consecutive jumps. Will there be any connection and common ground behind this, which will inevitably make the outside world have doubts about this enterprise.
Why do employees jump off buildings so frequently in this company? What secrets are hidden in Foxconn’s research? Let’s take a look at the reporter’s investigation.
Different people will take different approaches when facing problems. Some people have stronger psychological quality, so they will handle it properly, while others are psychologically fragile, so they will choose a more extreme way, but these young lives are fixed in their youth, which makes people feel sad. In the face of successive incidents of jumping off buildings, what kind of responsibility should Foxconn Group, as a party, take? Can we prevent similar incidents from happening again?
Lens 1:
Happy 24-year-old boy dreams of Foxconn
On May 6, 2010, Lu Xin jumped off the balcony. Lu Xin, 24, joined Foxconn in August 2009 with a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan. This boy, who likes music and has participated in the Hunan Happy Boys Competition, dreams of becoming a singer.
In the dormitory rented by Lu Xin outside the factory, the reporter found several payrolls: in December 2009, 2781 yuan; 2240 yuan in January 2010; March 2010, 3541 yuan. Lu Xin’s basic salary is 2,000 yuan, plus overtime pay, he will earn 2,000 yuan or 3,000 yuan a month. During his eight months in office, he sent 13,000 yuan to his family. "I remember when I paid my salary for the first time, he seemed to have paid 1,800 yuan or 1,900 yuan. He sent 1,500 yuan back, and I felt great." The worker said.
In Lu Xinsheng’s former blog, he left a paragraph like this: "I came to the company for money, but it was a mistake. I didn’t go into research and development, but I came to manufacturing. The money was still quite large, but I was wasting my life. I really regret it. Now my first step in life is wrong and I am very confused. "
Lens 2:
Thousands of people still flock to Foxconn every day
At Foxconn’s perennial recruitment point for new employees, thousands of people have gathered here since 6: 00 in the morning. Although there have been nine consecutive incidents of jumping off buildings in five months, it has not stopped these young people from flocking here from all directions.
These young people come from all over the country, and most of them come here to apply under the recommendation of their friends. The job they apply for is just an ordinary job that just meets the minimum wage in 900 yuan every month. The applicant said: "With food and shelter, and labor law as a guarantee, I will choose to work overtime. Rural people are doing farm work at home, and there is no problem for 12 hours. "
The staff at the recruitment point said that two or three thousand people can be recruited here every day, and at most it has reached tens of thousands. In Foxconn, more than 85% of migrant workers are born after 1980s and 1990s. Wan Hongfei, senior deputy manager of Foxconn Longhua Park, said that the mobility is relatively high now, especially for grass-roots employees. Statistics show that in 2004 and 2005, there was only 2%~3% loss per month, but now it has increased to 4%~5%.
Lens 3:
You have to work overtime if you want to earn more money.
The most common process in the production line is pasting adhesive tape: pasting 18 pieces of adhesive tape on the main board, which can be completed in two minutes. Each worker has to complete 220 such motherboards every day, and they spend 10 hours every day in such simple and repetitive work.
Every worker repeats the same action every day. These workers work eight hours a day and only get the basic salary in 900 yuan every month. If they want to earn more money, they have to work overtime, and they have to give up their leisure time and do simple and repetitive work.
Foxconn employees said that they work overtime for two hours every day. If you want to work, you will definitely like to work extra hours and earn more money.
Tong Xiaoyan, a Foxconn employee, said that half of the money earned is overtime.
Tong Xiaoyan said that after working for a long time, she will feel tired. She is optimistic and cheerful. When she encounters troubles or is too tired at work, she will listen to music or chat with others to relax herself. Several recent incidents of jumping off buildings have made them feel sorry and don’t understand.
Cruel enterprise mechanism is easy to cause psychological problems.
Liu Kaiming, director of the Shenzhen Institute of Contemporary Social Observation, said: "Without a suitable mechanism to ease this problem, changing yourself from a robot and a money-making tool to a person will lead to psychological and physical problems and extreme events."
"To some extent, workers were held hostage by machines and turned into machines. If a worker does a simple and repetitive job for 10 hours, we know that people will have worldly desires. Once worldly desires is suppressed, we will have a high degree of psychological and physical tension, and finally there will be conflicts. "
As the world’s largest OEM, Foxconn has increased its number of employees from 9,000 in 1996 to 748,000 in 2009, and in 2010, it reached 800,000 employees. As the king of global OEM, the creator of their wealth is precisely these 800 thousand young people.
Liu Kaiming believes that after these young people took the first step into the society, they met a wall head-on. "And all our mechanisms exclude them. All our voices tell them that you are working and you don’t belong here. All the information is unfavorable to them. Everything is integrated, which intensifies their dilemma. When this contradiction can’t be solved and overcome, then people who are a little fragile will choose the form of suicide to overcome this difficulty. " Liu Kaiming said.
Liu Kaiming, director of the Shenzhen Institute of Contemporary Social Observation, said: "It is difficult for us to say who is the last straw to crush them. There are complicated reasons, and there may be various reasons. But I think we can’t blame them for the reasons, because many of them are between the ages of 16 and 19, and they have not yet matured their minds, so they stepped into this society prematurely and assumed the heavy responsibility of creating wealth for our country, enterprises and large enterprises like Foxconn. So I think that our society should bear the greatest responsibility and our government should bear the most responsibility. "
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If we look at the incident of Foxconn’s ten consecutive jumps in isolation, it will easily be attributed to the individual employees. After all, compared with the total number of hundreds of thousands of employees, ten people are insignificant figures. However, when these ten young people leap, there are actually many invisible pushers behind them. The heavy burden borne by these young people in Foxconn is actually a price paid by the economy and society. To help them unload these burdens, the responsibility of enterprises cannot be shirked, and the government and society should also do their part. If we ignore these intangible social costs, no economic development can return to the real happiness index.
