It may seem like the construction of Rana Plaza is unethical as their workers “suffered from long working hours, [and were abused by their] employees”. However, through analyzing from a different perspective, I discover that most workers may rather have a job with “comparatively higher salary” than having no jobs, or jobs with low pays. Even though following social customs and business ethics may seem to be beneficial for workers of the company from a third person’s point of view, this may not necessarily be true for the workers. Most workers have a family to feed and relies mainly from the income they earned by building the Rana Plaza. In such harsh and realistic society, they may rather choose to be abused in long working hours than starving their families.

According to the article, Return of the graveyard shift; Night working, it states that “in many rich, highly unionised countries, workers regard night shifts as a good thing, since they provide jobs”. Night working may be consider as unethical as people normally sleeps at night and working during nighttime is against the regular sleeping schedule for most people. In this case, employees would rather night working than not working. Therefore, when evaluating whether a business is ethical or unethical, it is important to judge from multiple perspectives and the advantages and disadvantages for each stakeholders.

Links of references:
– https://blogs.ubc.ca/yi1996/2014/09/09/business-ethics/
– http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca/docview/1040403926