Undercover at a Chinese iPhone factory: New York student who posed as a worker says job involved screwing approximately 1,800 screws into devices for 12 hours, six days a week
- Dejian Zeng, a masters student at NYU, spent six weeks in an iPhone factory
- He worked 12 hours days, six days a week, with 200 others in the Chinese plant
- He was in charge of putting a single screw into 1,800 phone cases every day
- Zeng earned $450 per month, which is slightly higher than basic salary of $400
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Dejian Zeng, a second year masters student at NYU, spent six weeks in 2016 working at an iPhone factory in China
Twelve-hour days, six-day weeks, and all for $450 per month - these were the conditions faced by an NYU student as he went undercover in an iPhone factory.
Dejian Zeng, a second year masters student, spent six weeks living and working the Pegatron iPhone Factory, outside Shanghai, in order to see what life was like.
While he said some things were better than expected - as the factories are clean and air-conditioned - he revealed the hours were punishing and the bosses cruel.
Speaking to Mashable, he said getting a job at the factory was simple - he walked up to the gate with his ID and recited the English alphabet and they let him inside.
Once there, he was assigned a spot on the production line alongside around 200 others, producing a total of 3,600 phones per day.
His job was affixing speakers to the case for the iPhone 6s, and later the iPhone 7, using a single screw.
Every day, starting at 7pm and going through the night, he was expected to tighten 1,800 screws over the course of ten and a half hours, meaning one screw roughly every 23 seconds.
Zeng worked in this factory, on a production line of roughly 200 people, and said they produced around 3,600 phones per day
Workers get a 10 minute break in the morning, 50 minutes for lunch and another 30 minutes for dinner - and spend as much of that time as possible sleeping
In total, he spent 12 hours in the factory per day, including a ten minute morning break, 50 minutes for lunch, and then 30 minutes in the evening for dinner.
Most of them spend as much of that time as possible sleeping in order to keep up with the workload, he told Business Insider.
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