Apple has been changing and adapting its standards for some years to improve the quality of the raw materials of its products and directly on the workers of these companies. For some time now, the company of the bitten apple has implemented new standards to its suppliers that help improve working conditions for employees of these companies and also improve the efficiency and quality of those raw materials that Apple uses in its devices.
Last 2014 was the year of greatest change in the guidelines to follow to be an Apple supplier and although it is true that several details about these have changed to improve in this section, it is now when we see a complete report on the website itself that shows us more important changes.
If you want to read the entire report with the different changes you can find it right here. We leave a small summary with the highlight of it:
- More audits in third-party companies reaching up to 640
- 140 of these 64 audits have been carried out on new assembly lines
- The 60-hour work week is confirmed in almost 100% of the cases, specifically 97%
- Pollution has been reduced thanks to the energy efficiency of companies that manufacture for Apple
- The water used in manufacturing processes has been reduced, saving almost 15.000 million liters
And other data that we find in the report published by the Cupertino guys. In short, it is about taking more care of the employees of those companies that work in the assembly lines of products for Apple, in addition to improving energy efficiency in manufacturing and polluting much less. Apple has been quite aware of these issues that directly concern its image, if we look back in time, we find different complaints and reports on pollution, labor exploitation and other issues that affect the company, little by little these data are improving and we hope they will continue to do so.
