A few days ago, media reports said that Foxconn will lay off 7,000 employees in Taiwan in China and close the last production line of major local factories.
In response, Foxconn responded that in order to improve quality and operational efficiency, reduce costs, and upgrade the industrial Internet artificial intelligence transformation into a strategic direction, with the global expansion of layout and product diversification, to promote long-term stable growth of the company, each year in the compliance process Complete the personnel elimination.
However, Foxconn also said that it is providing employees with a variety of on-the-job training opportunities and continuing to recruit outstanding talents. In recent years, the company specializes in opto-mechatronics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data, industrial internet, robotics and automation. Expand recruitment.
In fact, in the past few years, Foxconn has been pushing the investment of robots and robotic arms, thus saving labor costs. Foxconn executives said in an interview that they will provide new employment opportunities for employees replaced by machines.