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Foxconn Shifts Focus to Research

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February 13, 2019
James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, said the cost of manufacturing LCD screens in the US is relatively high and the expenditure of hiring a blue-collar worker, or an employee engaged in the manufacturing industry, is not low, so "it is not surprising that Foxconn intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised." Read more

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