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The suicide rate at Foxcon is/was lower than that of the general population.

You should not get all your news from headlines.

Worst year 2010 with 14 suicides @ Foxconn when they had almost 1 million employees, around 1.4 per 100,000.

China's suicide rate is around 7.8 per 100k.

The rate in Japan is 18.5 per 100k, Australia 15.3, USA 12.1 and UK is 6.2 (WHO's 2012 numbers).

I wonder if that's employees who commit suicide while at work and if it accounts for Foxconn employees who commit suicide outside of work.

Don't they have dorms for the employees, so there's not really a lot of time spent "outside" of work?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988... "Around 150 Chinese workers at Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, threatened to commit suicide by leaping from their factory roof in protest at their working conditions." I'll let the weakness of the argument, "That's normal" speak for itself.

>> threatened to commit suicide That's just union tactics

Do the math. Calculate the suicide rate for China as a whole, them for Foxconn.

Do it, post the numbers here.

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