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But, most parts that go into a car are manufactured by suppliers, not the car company. Also, many employees are not direct hires, but employed by an intermediar
by dognotdog 12y ago
But, most parts that go into a car are manufactured by suppliers, not the car company. Also, many employees are not direct hires, but employed by an intermediary agency.
Long story short, while they do the final assembly more directly, 90% of the work is still done in China, figuratively speaking.
- dba7dba 12y agoI understand no large company can literally directly hire employees for all their material, parts, tools, and assembly. BUT most large car companies still directly hire own employees to put together the final product. And my point is Apple has hardly any employee that actually assembles the end product (in this case iphone, ipad, macbook etc), other than a few in US that build custome Mac Pro in US. So before one gets giddy about how profit per Apple employee is so high, he/she should remember there are literally hundreds of thousands of people assembling the final product but they are not counted as employees of Apple. You can call this practice any one of these: 1. It's smart business and that's what capitalism is all about. 2. It's immoral and unpatriotic. From what I know, no other non-China and non-US phone companies outsource 99% of assembling. Maybe I'm wrong.