Recently Foxconn Technology company held annual meetings with shareholders, which its chief executive - Terry Gou - shared his plans for the future and highlighted some of the relevant issues.
The next phase of the company is supposed to make accents on the wearable electronics, robots, electric vehicles and services to provide different kinds of cloud services, including network technology. Wearable Electronics assumes users care about health - it is a rich and inexhaustible subject. It pulls the services developed to collect and analyze data, read - clouds. This may also include robots. In Japan, there are traditional problems in communication between people. . One of these robots, Foxconn has already created a partnership with Softbank (project Pepper). Pepper robot can recognize emotions interlocutor and maintain a conversation.
As for electric vehicles, Foxconn company has experience of cooperation with Tesla Motors, for which it produces electronic dashboards, and constant marketing of batteries for electric vehicles for the local market. For example, Foxconn is working closely with the Chinese company Beijing Automotive Group. But it plans to go further. Foxconn started to develop its own electric vehicle, the consumer price which must not exceed $ 15,000.
Finally, Terry Gou summed up the long-term investigation of a series of suicides that took four years ago, 14 lives of workers. According to head of Foxconn, suicides were not related to the working environment - the monotony, fatigue and so on. Even at that time, and since then conditions have been repeatedly improved, work had nothing to complain about work. All that happens - it is ordinary circumstances of life: family and interpersonal conflicts. The bulk of the rank and file employees of the company - are young people aged 20 to 25 years. Therefore emotional background is such that various surprises, including - unpleasant, avoid impossible.