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New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.

A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

OK, that is not flexibility and manufacturing know how. That is too much power in the in the hands of the job providers.

As jobs continue to grow eventually even China will start to go short on workers and then things will start to change.




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