Signs of Changes Taking Hold in Electronics Factories in China
CHENGDU, China — One day last summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad
cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back.
At first, Ms. Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake. But when her bosses walked by, they just
nodded curtly. So Ms. Pu gently sat down and leaned back. Her body relaxed.
The rumors were true.
When Ms. Pu was hired at this Foxconnplant a year earlier, she received a short, green plastic stool
that left her unsupported back so sore that she could barely sleep at night. Eventually, she was promoted
to a wooden chair, but the backrest was much too small to lean against. The managers of this 164,000-
employee factory, she surmised, believed that comfort encouraged sloth.
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