Here is the second part of the NY Times Report. Hope you enjoy!
Josh
Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. Many more people work for Apple’s contractors: an additional 700,000 people engineer, build and assemble iPads, iPhones and Apple’s other products. But almost none of them work in the United States. Instead, they work for foreign companies in Asia, Europe and elsewhere, at factories that almost all electronics designers rely upon to build their wares.
This means that most of the people who make the iPhones and iPads don't even work for Apple. They are contractors. The number of employees who are not contractors are a small fraction of the many workers employed at General Motors in the 1950's.
“Apple’s an example of why it’s so hard to create middle-class jobs in the U.S. now,” said Jared Bernstein, who until last year was an economic adviser to the White House.
“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp to revise or reconstruct iPhone manufacturing the operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul examine or go over carefully for needed repairs. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
Apple has said that overseas factories are their only option at this point in time. One thing that impressed Apple is that a Chinese factory reconstructed the iPhone just weeks before it was due in stores. Apple had decided that they wanted something different, and Apple changed the screen of the iPhone at the last minute. The Chinese factory then examined the iPhone for needed repairs. The new screens began arriving near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
A foreman immediately aroused 8,000 workers from sleep in the company's dormitories. Each worker was given one biscuit and a cup of tea, led to a workstation and then within half an hour, started a 12 hour shift of fitting glass screens into frames. Within 96 hours, the plant the new iPhone screens were sent to, were producing 10,000 iPhones a day.
Stay tuned for part 3!
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