The facilities are first class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm… I was very surprised when I walked onto the floor at Foxconn, how tranquil it is compared with a garment factory. So the problems are not the intensity and burnout and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment factory. It’s more a function of monotony, of boredom, of alienation perhaps.
- Fair Labor Association president Auret van Heerden

