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BBC reporter Richard Bilton's undercover report "Panorama: Apple's Broken Promises" used an iPhone6 to show how an exhausted workforce look like in the Apple premises and the company's failure to protect its workers and broke its promises.
The report showed exhausted workers trying to work but fail and falling asleep due to long hours of work time in the Pegatron factories just outside the outskirts of Shanghai, China. Unruly hours of work, sleeping dormitories, ID cards, work meetings, and juvenile workers were found out at the Pegatron factories.
On the other hand, Apple strongly pointed the report in disagreement.
However, more reports are coming out as an undercover reporter who worked in the factory line as one of the hardware workers making parts for Apple computers, worked 18 days straight without a day off. Another claimed that working 16 hours daily make them forget food but rather wanted to lie down and rest. It was hard to move and hard to sleep due to the stress.
Apple declined an interview to give their feedback to all these reports but rather sent a statement claiming that they are doing their part to ensure fair treatments and the safety of their workers.
The Apple management states that napping is normally allowed in the factory during break times. Nevertheless, the management will investigate sleeping during work hours.
The poor condition of these workers surfaced in a report that revealed 14 workers at Apple's biggest supplier, Foxconn, committed suicide back in 2010.
Right after the suicides, Apple sent out a set of working standards on how a factory worker shall be treated. Thus, it moved some of its production to Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai.
