Global entrepreneur: Terry Gou said he was afraid of getting a call early in the morning

After a series of 12 suicides that have left Mr Gou awake at night, in an effort to uncover the fog, and to clean up the stigma of "sweatshops", the company's core, Foxconn's Shenzhen Longhua Technology Park, was unveiled for the first time on May 25, when he received a 11th employee suicide jump, Quickly pro-Shenzhen sits in the overall situation.　　At the scene he told reporters: "We have confidence, strong will, strong determination (to deal with this problem), we just need time." However, on the second day (26th), at 11:20, Foxconn's 12th-year employee fell, and the deceased was male. Later, Foxconn confirmed it.　　"Because there is no way to stop these things from happening again and again, in the last two months, I was afraid to get a call after 11 o'clock or early in the morning," said Mr Gou, who was 59 years old.　　With Foxconn's suicides, Mr. Gou himself and Foxconn's management have become increasingly aware of the importance of the idea, from the very beginning of communication with the staff to the frustration of asking the Mage to ward off evil, and to ask the employee to sign a "no suicide warrant", and Mr Gou seems to have tried all possible solutions. Chinese government officials have announced an investigation into the unprecedented questioning of the public about the suicides of Hon Hai's precision workers.　　But so far the government has not shown that the company is negligent. Labor rights advocates say the series of deaths suggests Hon Hai has a problem with the way it treats its employees. The workers here pay 900 yuan a month (about 132 US dollars) for the legal minimum wage, but most workers work overtime and overtime is 1.5 times times or more of the standard salary.　　Critics say Hon Hai has forced or allowed workers to work overtime beyond the legal overtime, and that the strict management of its militarization and monotonous working conditions have exerted undue pressure on workers.　　In addition to complaints and questions from relatives, the media, and the community, Apple, HP and other Foxconn's "food and clothing parents" are also worried that the momentum will not affect their reputation indirectly, and began to investigate whether Foxconn's suicide incident originated from "sweatshops". Apple said we were saddened and disturbed by the recent suicides at Foxconn. Apple said it was sending a team to independently evaluate Foxconn's "response to such tragic events". Apple will also continue its field visits to factories that produce its own products, and is now in contact with senior management at Hon Hai and believes they are dealing with it very seriously. HP says it is investigating what Foxconn may be doing with the tragic events. A Dell spokeswoman said any reports of poor working conditions in the Dell supply chain were investigated and, if confirmed, appropriate measures taken.　　Nokia said that we have contacted Foxconn to ensure that, as long as there are problems, these problems have been found and dealt with.　　As Hon Hai's customers, companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard announced their first public comment on the suicides in Wednesday.Last year a British tabloid exposed the poor treatment of longhua workers, especially those who produced ipods for Apple (Meanwhile, Apple reported that nearly one-seventh of Longhua's workers produced their products).　　After the British report, Hon Hai was attacked by Chinese media. According to a report published by Apple last August, a team of investigators in Longhua found a number of breaches of the supplier code of conduct, including the overcrowding of three outside factory dormitories. According to Apple's request, the supplier should keep the worker's working hours within 60 hours per week unless an emergency occurs. But according to Apple's estimates, one-third of Longhua workers work longer than this limit. But no evidence of forced overtime was found. Apple believes Hon Hai has generally complied with the "main aspects" of the code of conduct, the report said.　　But Apple declined to comment further on the report.　　"Sweatshops"? Before the series of suicides, the factory and its owner Hon Hai Precision Industrial Co., Ltd. were little known outside the industry.　　What secret is hidden here, enough to let a fresh life meteor out? In the Hon Hai is located in Shenzhen Longhua base gate, suicide employee family is crying.　　Through a gate guarded by a guard, he entered the huge factory. The factory employs about 270,000 people, and it vividly embodies the ambitions of Mr Gou, the founder of Hon Hai. In a time when manufacturing is synonymous with outsourcing, the bulk of the world's electronics manufacturing business to mainland China, Mr Gou's handiwork is no match.　　Almost unnoticed by the world, Mr Gou has turned his company into China's biggest exporter and the world's largest contract maker of electronic products. Hon Hai's revenues have grown by more than 50% per cent over the past 10 years, reaching $40.6 billion last year. Revenue is expected to increase by 14 billion trillion dollars this year. This is about the equivalent of Motorola's annual revenue increase.　　For Hon Hai's rivals, they may be hard to match.　　After the incident, Foxconn allowed the media to enter the full view of the company, the core of the corporate Empire-Longhua Technology Park for the first time in the eyes of the world. Although labor activists call Longhua a "sweatshop," it doesn't look like the dirty misery of the words reminiscent of the novelist, Dickens.　　Thousands of workers in colorful uniforms, wearing identity cards, walking on the tree-lined road, others in the canteen to provide a variety of local food meals. Gou has visited the Module906 clean workshop with reporters successively, in the J District, the Care center, and the production line, which was rarely entered in the day before, in a multimedia query machine, Mr. Gou told reporters, "Every employee can find information about the work attendance of each person here, including how many hours of overtime, how much money can be earned?" "In the J dormitory area near the swimming pool, the reporter saw several workers are swimming." According to Jinming, chief General manager of Shenzhen plant of Foxconn, there are 5 swimming pools in Shenzhen, open to 1 in the evening.1 o'clock, these swimming pools are free to all employees. After visiting the dormitory area, a research and Development department employee who worked at Foxconn for several years asked Mr. Gou to sign his name.　　Gou happily signed Mr Gou and the date at the neckline of his T-shirt. In addition to its many assembly lines and staff quarters, Longhua Technology Park has a fire brigade, a hospital and a swimming pool for staff, so long as Mr Gou is in Shenzhen, he will swim in the pool every morning. Restaurants, banks, grocery stores and internet cafes are readily available on both sides of the main road in Longhua Technology Park, a corporate city.　　More than 500 open-air large-screen TVs across the park are constantly playing aerobics, safety education programs and company news produced by Foxconn TV (Foxconn TV). Hon Hai executives say their workers are better off than the Chinese average, which is one reason companies are able to attract new workers, whose pay and overtime are in line with local labor laws and follow the electronics Federation of Citizens (Electronic Industry citizenship Coalition a code of conduct for global electronics suppliers.　　The company has taken a series of suicide prevention measures, including the establishment of suicide telephone hotline, the appointment of experts and consultants to consult, but also invited monks to plant practices and so on.　　The labour rights advocates also say Hon Hai's fine working environment is better than many factories in mainland China, where working conditions have continued to improve in recent years. Li Qiang, managing director of China Labor Watch, who is based in New York, said Hon Hai's sophisticated Longhua base was too big for the young workers to feel that no one cared about them. Li Qiang and other Chinese scholars and labor experts said that the previous generations of migrant workers, mainly from mainland China's impoverished rural areas, the hard work of farming has been a constant, more focused on making money.　　Today's young workers are less sympathetic to the countryside and more aware of the gap between their own hard lives and the wealth and comfort of other people in Chinese society. Li Guorui, a professor of psychology at East China Normal University in Shanghai, said that this generation of migrant workers is very different from the previous generations of migrant workers in this era, it is easy to access information through mobile phones, the media and the Internet. They can easily know the lives of other peers.　　Today's young workers don't want to be machines for making money. Mr Gou said that recalling the 11 employees who died in the high fall, among them, 9 employees in less than six months, many of the reasons for suicide is economic, emotional and other reasons, this is closely related to the personality and mood of the staff, and the group's management style and work pressure is not related, but Foxconn will do its best to Build a wide variety of pipelines to help employees ease the mood. Mr Gou said the disclosure of individual cases was unfair to the deceased, but only the "11th hop", which had just jumped out of a suicide, had prepared a suicide note and stated that no one could open it, and when the police searched his belongings, he opened the victim's feelings andTo choose to commit suicide. "Companies cannot afford unlimited responsibility," says Mr Gou, who said it would be unfair to extend the responsibility indefinitely. "Now parents can not control their children's marital life, enterprises how to interfere with emotional life." If there is one way to do it, I dare not hesitate. "For the new recruits who are concerned about signing a suicide waiver agreement, Mr. Gou explained that because of the high pensions given to suicides at the time of the jump, the disguised form became a reward for suicides, so the requirement to add a clause to the entry contract was intended to be a mere reluctance to turn this high pension into a reward. But being mistaken for a "suicide exemption clause" by some employees, Mr Gou vowed to cancel the clause, retract the letter and apologise to the community.　　Mr Gou also said that pensions should be lowered to the minimum permitted by law. Around an open area in the park, a banner advertised the company's karaoke game. "Stress can be controlled, people complain from time to time, but it doesn't affect me very much," said a young employee, smoking a cigarette. "Another Longhua employee, Mr. Shaw, who graduated from a technical school in central China three years ago, was immediately recruited by Hon Hai." When he entered the factory, he started with the assembly work, starting at a rate of 44 dollars a month (at current exchange rates). If he works 30 days in one months, he can get 157 dollars a month. "I was really too tired at the time, too busy to rest," he said. Now Mr. Shaw has been promoted and his base salary has doubled, although the total wage has not changed much, but his working hours have been reduced. He says the situation is much better now than it was in the media's repeated questioning last year, but "the changes are not complete enough." ”