‘Foxconn wants female employees in India totake up lead positions in design, tech space’

 

IPHONE contract manufacturer Fox conn wants women employees in India to take up lead positions in design and other technology-related positions,atop company official hassaid.Foxconnhas48,000employees across India and 25 per cent of its new hires are married women. “Weseenotonlytheassemblywork for women but also some design, technology-related positions. Lot of our current employees are highly educated.Wewouldliketogivethem more opportunity to advance their position, not just limited to assemblywork,” FoxconnChairmanYoung Liu told PTI. The Foxconn factory has about 70 percentwomenand30percentmen.

 

The company recently inaugurated a women-only residential complex built by the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) in Sriperumbudur near Chennai that can house over 18,000 women employees working with Foxconn. Liuhadthensaidthereisanupward trend in all types of hiring by the Taiwanese electronics manufacturing majorin India and the company hires regardless of gender. The company is also setting up its second largest mobile manufacturingplantoutsideChinainKarnataka with a planned investment of Rs 25,000 crore that will create 40,000 jobs.Foxconnrecentlyinfusedabout Rs 1,200 crore unit in its Karnataka unit, taking its total investment to aboutRs13,800crore in theFoxconn Hon Hai Technology India Mega Development Pvt Ltd. Liu last week said the company is in talks with the Tamil Nadu government to set up a battery energy storage system unit that will focus on electric vehicles. Besides, the company has formed a joint venture to set up a semiconductor plant in India and is also in the process to start production of electric vehicles in the country. LiusaidFoxconn’sinformationand communicationtechnologysegment has just startedinIndia.“We are also waiting to put our 3+3 future industry in India,” he said. As part of the “3+3 strategy”, Foxconn has prioritised expanding business in three key industries -- electric vehicles, digital health, and robotics industries.