Young people across China are increasingly shunning monotonous, low-paid assembly-line jobs, leaving Foxconn, the maker of iPhones and iPads, struggling to attract enough workers, the electronics manufacturer’s chairman says.
Terry Gou, founder of the company that is China’s largest private employer, says that he is upgrading Foxconn’s training programmes and automating more of its assembly lines in the face of a labour shortage.
“The young generation don’t want to work in factories, they want to work in services or the internet or another more easy and relaxed job,” he said on the sidelines of a meeting of Asian business and political leaders in Bali, Indonesia.