Foxconn's Kunshan Works Almost Halves Workforce by Half

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Mandy Zuo Rise of the Robots: 60,000 Workers Culled from Just One Factory as China's Struggling Electronics Hub Turns to Artificial Intelligence. South China Morning Post, May 21, 2016.
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/e ... -one-factory-chinas

My comment:
(a)
(i) work (n): "factory[:]  11 works (pl. works) [countable + singular or plural verb] (often in compounds) a place where things are made or industrial processes take place  <an engineering works> <a brickworks>"
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries, undated.
http://www.oxfordlearnersdiction ... tion/english/work_2
(ii) works (n): "3 (plural only) A factory or factories, or similar collection(s) of buildings  <The steel works almost fills the valley.>"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/works

(b) Kunshan Zhongrong Metal Products Company  昆山中荣金属制品有限公司 (dust explosion on Aug 2, 2014; the company is unrelated to Foxconn)
(c) 獨！前進富士康昆山廠 直擊郭董機器人軍團. YouTube.com, published by 57東森財經新聞台 on May 25, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ocxespm4gc
("鴻海旗下的富士康，一直給外界神秘印象，東森財經台獨家前進，富士康的昆山廠區，這是­成立22年來，首度對外開放蘋果產線！大大小小的機器人，全是郭董的秘密軍團，讓昆山­廠人力在３年內，從11萬人降到５萬")

* The 57 means channel 57.
(d) Of course, I am skeptical.