So %0.0012 (11/920'000) of their workforce has committed suicide? What is the average percentage of suicide deaths in that age range in china?
Remember: newspapers and blogs are in the selling eyeballs business, not in the reporting news business.
From the linked Telegraph article, "For those who believe the spate of suicides is statistically in line, given how many people work at Foxconn, consider this: the company says it has prevented a further 30 people from trying to kill themselves in the past three weeks alone."
I wouldn’t be so fast with comparisons, though. You might have to double your percentage (the suicides happened between January and May 2010). I also don’t know whether suicides of Foxconn workers not on company estates are included. That might skew the numbers substantially.
Would you like your workplace to be like that? I mean, I hope that there is no workplace as stressful as a war.
Out of all the ways to reduce the suicide rate, I don't think this would of made my list.
They had to do the same thing at a mall near where I live, they strung up safety nets to stop people jumping the 7 stories to their deaths. Of course, there weren't workers at the mall, but it is just something you can do, on top of the usual.