( https://blogs.ubc.ca/hanxuanwang/2013/09/12/the-increasing-suicides-rates-of-workers/)

In this article, Huanxuan informs us about a sad wave of suicides in the Foxconn company, who is an original design manufacturer and its clients include major American, European, and Japanese electronics and information technology companies.

I completly agree with Huanxuan when he says that business sometimes tend to be only driven by profits, forgetting ethics .

One could think that these kind of events never happen in developed countries.

However, France has been the target of multiple accusations of a period of high suicide rates by workers , from France Telecom company ( now called Orange) , in the telecommunication sector.

In 2010, this company saw fife of its employees commit suicide within fifteen days, raising questions concerning the pressure felt by employees .

One of the employees declared in a letter before commiting suicide that France Telecom was the only reason he commited suicide , due to the constant pressure,overload of work,etc.

I here wanted to talk about this to show that what Huanxuan said about China is also valid in developed countries, where work conditions have the reputation to be better .

Sources :

http://www.lefigaro.fr/emploi/2010/09/10/01010-20100910ARTFIG00551-cinq-suicides-en-quinze-jours-chez-france-telecom.php