<p><br /> Tech firm Foxconn has confessed that it paid insufficient attention to workers' welfare following the death of an eighth employee.<br /> </p><p><br /> Twenty-one-year-old Nan Wang was the tenth Foxconn worker to jump from a building this year at the Longhua industrial complex of Shenzhen last week.<br /> </p><p><br /> The two employees that did not die sustained severe injuries. All the victims were below 25-years-old and had worked at the company for less than a year.<br /> </p><p><br /> Foxconn responded to angry employees, who blamed the lower-level management and insufficient provision of psychological counseling for the tragedies this year: "Has the enterprise provided sufficient mechanisms and opportunities for them to communicate and interact with each other? I feel that Foxconn has not done enough in the past," Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun admitted in an interview with state television at the weekend.<br /> </p><p><br /> Many workers claim that they feel lonely, as they are surrounded by strangers both at work and in their homes and human contact is limited: "I've worked here for about one-and-a-half months and I've only met my dorm mates twice. And I haven't spoken more than five sentences in total to them," an unidentified male Foxconn employee said.<br /> </p><p><br /> Wages are so low in China that exhausted workers who wish to take a rest are forced to do overtime. After ten years of employment the basic wage is around 1090 yuan (around £110 per month).<br /> </p>
