One of the company’s top officials stated that Foxconn, a contract producer of iPhones, wants its Indian women workers to assume leadership roles in design and other technology-related roles.
Out of Foxconn’s 48,000 workers in India, 25% are newly hired married women.
“We see some design and technology-related jobs for women in addition to assembly tasks. Many of our current staff members have advanced degrees. Foxconn Chairman Young Liu, “We would like to give them more opportunity to advance their position, not just limited to assembly work.”
About 70% of the workers at the Foxconn factory are women and 30% are men.
In Sriperumbudur, close to Chennai, the business recently opened a women-only residential complex designed by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT), which has the capacity to accommodate more than 18,000 female Foxconn employees.
Then, Liu had stated that the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing major in India is hiring more people overall and that it does so regardless of a candidate’s gender.
Additionally, the business is constructing in Karnataka, with an estimated investment of Rs 25,000 crore, its second-largest mobile manufacturing plant outside of China, creating 40,000 employment.
Foxconn recently invested over Rs 1,200 crore in its Karnataka facility, bringing its total investment in Foxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development Pvt Ltd to approximately Rs 13,800 crore.
According to Liu’s statement from last week, the company is in discussions with the Tamil Nadu government to establish a battery energy storage system unit dedicated to electric vehicles.
In addition, the company is in the process of launching the production of electric vehicles in India and has established a joint venture to establish a semiconductor plant there.
Foxconn’s information and communication technology division is relatively new in India, according to Liu.
“We are also waiting to put our 3+3 future industry in India,” he stated.
Foxconn has made growing its business in three important areas its top priorities as part of its “3+3 strategy”: the robots, digital health, and electric vehicle sectors.