Tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon don’t do their own manufacturing.

Tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon don’t do their own manufacturing.

Ethical Sourcing?

Tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon don’t do their own manufacturing. Instead they use CEMs (Contract Electronics Manufacturers) in countries where labor costs are low and the technical skills needed are available.

There have been numerous scandals relating to these outsourcers – low wages, long work hours, oppressive environment, injurious work conditions, etc.

After the latest scandal, your teenage daughter/son/cousin exclaims: How can you continue to own an iPhone (or Surface or Echo or Kindle)?!

How would you respond? (Even if you don’t have one of these products put yourself in this

Answer preview  Tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon don’t do their own manufacturing.

Tech companies like Apple Microsoft and Amazon don’t do their own manufacturing.

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