Since 2010, dozens of Foxconn workers have jumped to their deaths in factories across the country, hurling the Apple manufacturer into the international limelight and raising worldwide concern over the working conditions at the factories. Three years later, reports of suicide continue to rock the company, with two new suicides occurring over a four-day period this April.

On the morning of April 24, a 24-year-old man surnamed An, jumped to his death from the 6th floor of the Foxconn dormitory in Zhengzhou. An was newly recruited and had not yet signed a work contract prior to his death and is therefore not considered a Foxconn employee according to reports. 

Then on the afternoon of April 27, a 23-year-old unmarried female employee surnamed Jin, who had been employed at Foxconn for six months, also committed suicide by jumping off the 6th floor of her dormitory building.

While investigations into the death are being conducted, some media have been speculating that the reason for the suicides at the Zhengzhou factory is the “silent mode” enforced there, which forbids workers from talking about anything unrelated to work, conversations at a volume that can be heard from a third party or having a conversation with three or more people at the factory.

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