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Two sides of apple cutting edge

USA companies employed fellow Americans even if not great profits are to be realized. They showed generosity in employing their workers. China, on the other hand, emphasized on efficiency which lead to great profits. This has made companies like Apple and other many more companies seek for middle level skills in China, where the assembling of their electronic gadgets takes place. Firms once had a duty to support American labors, even when it was never the greatest economic choice. That has vanished. Profits and effectiveness have outplayed generosity.

Even though America is one of the countries with the most learned and educated workers in the world, only but a few workers undergo training in the middle level skills that factories would need. This tells us that labor that would be provided by the few trained workers would be low, forcing companies to seek for the same labor abroad. China has got a lot of labor provided by the middle level skilled workers. This is because a lot of workers in china undergo training in middle level skills. This has led production of more goods, therefore, attracted companies like Apple to assemble their electronics in china in order to realize more profits.

China could provide a lot of engineers at a scale that the United States of America could not match. The executives from Apple estimated that a total of 8,700 industrial engineers would be needed to supervise, guide and oversee about 200,000 workers in the assembly-line involve in the manufacture of the Apple’s iPhones. According to the company’s analyst, it would have taken about as nine months to find the number of the needed engineers in United States. In China, it would only take 15 days to find the same number of engineers.

China could provide workers and industry, which outdid their American equivalents in skills, industriousness and efficiency. This is evident through Faxconn City as viewed by the Apple’s executives. Faxconn City is a facility that has 230,000 employees, most working six days every week, spending twelve hours each day at the plant and more than a quarter of the workers stay in the company barracks, earning approximately 17 Dollars a day. According to Jennifer Rigoni, Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010; Faxconn City Could hire 3000 people overnight, something that United State could find difficult to find the same amount of workers overnight and persuade them to stay in dormitories.

Finding a technical work force is a big challenge in setting up plant in the United States. To be precise, would say that they need engineers with above high school education but not necessarily a bachelor’s degree. At this skill level, Americans are hard to find. This is the opposite of what happens in China as engineers with more than high school education would be easier to find.

Even though some features of the iPhone are distinctively American – for example – the device software, its innovative campaign, the Apple data center recently built in North Carolina and the vital semiconductors manufactured in Austin, Texas; these facilities are not large sources of jobs because not many workers would be needed in these firms. New companies like Google and Facebook benefit from this since they do not need to hire many workers yet they still grow.

Apple executives have a belief that there are no enough workers in America with the skills the company needs or factories with efficiency and flexibility like that in China and other countries abroad. Other companies working with Apple, for instance Corning, a company that manufactures glass for iPhones says they must go abroad.

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