How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work : Economics: A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
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“The 'do this or get fired and starve to death attitude' is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can get away with treating its employees so cruelly.”