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Foxconn Ethical Issues The primary ethical issue surrounding Foxconn is the purported exploitation of its workers – specifically, physical and emotional mistreatment, for profit maximization. To deliver ‘‘speed, quality, engineering services, flexibility, and cost-saving’’ (Foxconn, 2011) for its partners, Foxconn undertook reprehensible actions. It imposed excessive working hours, inconsistent and exploitative wage compensation, and inhumane management (Condliffe, 2018)..