Issue 2 July 2020 Live Foxconn
8 20 years of Foxconn in the Czech Republic
22 #Together we can do it
32 Summer with a touch of nostalgia
4 · Young Way Liu, Foxconn’s number 1 man: Your team spirit impresses me 02
Dear colleagues, Although what goes on in the company is still affected by the coronavirus, we are happy to see how the country as a whole is returning to normal life. And with the necessary precautions we are also enjoying the gradual easing of certain rules in Foxconn. We are keeping our fingers crossed for this positive trend to continue, not only in the summer, but particularly in the autumn and winter.
2020 is the year that will always be associated with the coronavirus pandemic. However, it has a different, very positive significance for our company – we are commemorating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Foxconn in the Czech Republic. So it is no coincidence that the topic of the current edition is Lenka devoted to this important milestone. The first employees joined Foxconn CZ in June, and so they have just celebrated their “twentieth”. Brychtová Editor-in-Chief To mark this occasion we have prepared a number of interesting features for you – such as a timeline mapping Foxconn’s most important milestones in the Czech Republic as well as a survey with employees who have been with us from the very beginning. We also travel back in time together and take a look back at the year 2000. Can you remember what we were living for and what was going on back then? And definitely don’t miss our section Personality, in which you’ll find a unique “anniversary” interview. You can read about opinions of Young Way Liu, the successor of the company founder Terry Gou and global Foxconn’s current top man.
Happy reading! And wishing Foxconn and its employees all the best for the coming years! Content
9 Let’s go back in time…
10–13 Foxconn through the eyes of employees
18–20 Keeping up with Foxconn divisions
24–26 Satisfaction survey We’re keeping things moving
28–29 Get to know me
30–31 How good is your imagination?
Published: 4 times a year ■ Issue number: 2/2020 ■ Editor-in-Chief: Lenka Brychtová ■ Editorial Board: Vojtěch Babka, Veronika Chek, Pavel Kožený, Čestmír Kulíšek, Karel Plašil, Martina Rochlová, Jakub Skyva, Michaela Švábová, Marek Hubač, Gaja Koláčková ■ Photographs: Foxconn archive, © Shutterstock.com Front page photo: Foxconn ■ Published by: Foxconn EMS, s.r.o., U Zámečku 27, 532 01 Pardubice, email: [email protected] ■ Produced by: C.O.T. media, s.r.o., Komplex Olšanka, Táboritská 23/1000, Praha 3, 130 00, ID No. 25098853, email: [email protected]. ■ Photographs may be illustrative. Printing errors reserved. This product has been manufactured in accordance with FSC® standards. Certificate No. GFA-COC-001203-W. Licence FSC-STD-40-004. This certificate guarantees that the wood used to make the paper comes from forests that are managed in an environmentally friendly manner.
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Foxconn is not the only one celebrating Cooperation between Kutná Hora Secondary Technical School and Foxconn is thriving. And as both institutions are celebrating major anniversaries this year, Foxconn is supporting the school with a financial donation. To mark the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the school our company is providing a donation to enable it to purchase teaching aids for the students, which will help to further improve their education. Moreover, as evidence of this mutual cooperation a model of a server will be displayed in the school from September. This will also be accompanied by a unique model of Secondary technical school in Kutná Hora the Foxconn Kutná Hora plant, to which is celebrating 150 years since its establishment students will route power and place miniature street lighting lamps during lessons. “It’s not easy to find willing organizations that want to work with schools, which is why I’m glad that in Foxconn we have found a true partner we can rely on,” said school director Josef Treml. The institutions signed the first cooperation document in 2016 and have been in close contact since then. Foxconn provides pupils with the chance to gain professional work experience and, in return, they actively attend events such as X-Day, Open Days, and others. The school appreciates the material and financial support our company offers, from electrical components to technical equipment. One example of this is the company’s support for the operation of the Ámos interactive educational panel. ■ Foxconn is donating a unique model of its Kutná Hora plant to the secondary technical school Text: Jakub Skyva, PR and Communication
Regular IT system shutdown The IT services provided by the Software Week 46 Delivery and ICT departments will be from Sunday 15 November 2020 – unavailable to all Foxconn companies 8:00 a.m. on the following dates: to Monday 16 November 2020 – 4:00 a.m. Week 33 from Sunday 16 August 2020 – Enjoy your free Sundays! No production 8:00 a.m. or computers will be running! ■ to Monday 17 August 2020 – 4:00 a.m. Text: SWD Field Engineering Team
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Young Way Liu, Foxconn’s number 1 man: Your team spirit impresses me
During its existence in the Czech Republic, Foxconn has become a key European plant within the entire Foxconn group. It was also the very first foreign branch, that Young Way Liu visited after his appointment as Foxconn‘s global CEO. How does he perceive its transformation?
How do you see Foxconn Czech There is a need to always provide you invigorating to be given this Republic’s current position in the with tools to allow you to upskill and opportunity to chart the future growth context of Foxconn’s operations represent the leading edge of of a global business. I am grateful for worldwide? manufacturing and supply chain the chance to take on the role to lead Over the past 20 years, Foxconn Czech solutions. This includes the ongoing the company into brighter future. To Republic has become a key operational investment in new technologies such as do this, I always remind myself to just hub in Europe – and it is now one of hardware and software automation, do everything as best I can, regardless the top five Foxconn performers business intelligence, analytics, and AI at of what it is. globally. The commitment of our team our Pardubice and Kutna Hora sites. As here has resulted in us being we continue to scale greater heights, As we look into the future of the consistent with our performance, I am confident that each of us will Foxconn Technology Group, from achieving excellence by being ranked as contribute towards growing the success Foxconn 1.0 to 3.0, it is crucial for us to the second biggest exporter of the of Foxconn Czech Republic in the many streamline the work in the hubs we region. The success of Foxconn Czech years to come! have in over 20 countries around the Republic is only made possible by the world, to achieve a higher efficiency. hardworking and dynamic team here, As the global CEO of Foxconn, how Shifting from continuous optimization made up of the brightest talents found would you sum up its past year? to transformation and reinvention, in Europe. Taking up the position as the head of where we focus on future industries Foxconn has been the most unexpected with core technology, an important You are not just individuals who were and most challenging decision I have element is to strengthen our internal hired for your position, but you were ever done in my life. On one hand, communication. The success of our chosen for the potential that you have I knew that it was going to be an uphill group lies in the contribution of to bring the company to greater challenge to pick up the baton from our everyone in the team. One of my main heights. To ensure this team continues founder Terry Gou, while also ensuring goals in my tenure is to ensure that we to excel in their career, we are that the company stays true to its listen to the ideas and feedback from dedicated to your ongoing education. founding beliefs. On the flipside, it was everyone of you.
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I wanted to share a quote from a book “Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” written by Phil Knight. “Athletes get lucky, poets get lucky, businesses get lucky. Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination are invaluable, but luck may decide the outcome.
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What was behind Foxconn‘s success My biggest joy comes our strong global network, where our in the Czech Republic? manufacturing and sales hubs are I believe the success of Foxconn Czech from seeing how each spread across the world to increase Republic is driven by our customer- goal that we set, is effectiveness and allows more space centric belief, strong global network achieved one by one, for flexibility. Regardless of the market and our pool of local talents in the we expand to, it is important that we team. We have a great ambition to be together as a team! respect the local culture in each market. known as a company that is customer- centric. We stay true to our beliefs in model developed by our founder, has Localization is important to us, as we providing a complete solution to create proven to be very successful in believe each region has its unique an all-rounded smart life for our developing and providing integrated culture which is best handled by local customers. To achieve this, the teams services for our customers. Despite the talents and local teams, and this will work hard and do all that it takes to rapid expansion of our business, we remain the same in the future. We deliver on the results. never fall short of providing only the have also established long term best service and are committed to relationships with local governments In particular, the Electronic Component fulfilling customers’ changing needs by and communities to build a sustainable Module Move and Service (eCMMS) adapting quickly. The second reason is future together.
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customer experience, intelligent important to know what to focus on decision making, and operational so that we can maximize our effort efficiency. This phase will stress on the instead of stressing over what cannot importance of using technology to be changed. Hence, we must always try improve effectiveness. This brings us to to do our best in everything (what you Foxconn 3.0, which has seen the group can control) so that we can look back transformed from labor to technology, and say we have done our best with and at last knowledge-based business. no regrets. In this phase, we will focus on three future industries of electric vehicle, What would you like to say to digital health, and robotics, as well as Foxconn CZ and its employees in three core technology of AI, connection with its 20th anniversary? semiconductor, and 5G. Czech Republic is the first main foreign I am pleased that we are now on the hub I have visited ever since I became right track and have been making very the Chairman of the group. The working impressive progress! atmosphere and team spirit never fail to impress me each time I visit it! What brings you the most joy in life? I know that recently our operation has My biggest joy comes from seeing how been slightly impacted by the each goal that we set, is achieved one pandemic like all the companies around by one, together as a team! The the world, but I am relieved when satisfaction from achieving goals and I saw the determination of our Czech meeting expectations is my biggest colleagues in the fight against the motivation, especially when the team pandemic. I am especially looking comes together and works as one. forward to visiting it again after the Everyone contributes and shares their pandemic to say thank you to each and ideas and watches their ideas come to every one of you. I also wanted to fruition; that satisfaction and joy from highlight that you have always teamwork is unbeatable. And I believe demonstrated great social this is what will allow Foxconn to grow responsibility, especially as we see to even greater heights! many of you volunteer your time and effort to help out underserved families Do you plan to transform Foxconn What’s your life motto? and hospital clinics, which is something in any way? I wanted to share a quote from a book that very much aligns with our values. Ever since I started this role, I have set “Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of the goal to transform the group from Nike” written by Phil Knight. “Athletes Lastly, I would like to say that Foxconn 1.0 to Foxconn 2.0, and then get lucky, poets get lucky, businesses regardless of the impact that the Foxconn 3.0. Foxconn 1.0 focuses on get lucky. Hard work is critical, a good pandemic has brought to our lives, the continuous optimization, which has team is essential, brains and health and safety of our employees four elements including governance determination are invaluable, but luck remains the utmost priority for us. structure, sharing system, margin may decide the outcome. Some people I hereby wish that all of you and your maximization, and lean management. might not call it luck. They might call it families continue to stay safe and This phase will focus on streamlining Tao, or Logos, or Jñāna, or Dharma. Or healthy. operation between headquarters and spirit. Or God. Put it this way. The subsidiaries to increase efficiency and harder you work, the better your Tao.” Let’s build a more successful Foxconn encourage knowledge sharing. Focus on what you can control and the Czech Republic together and cheers to things you cannot control will sort the next 20 years! ■ Foxconn 2.0 shifts focus to digital themselves out. It is impossible for us Prepared by: Pavel Kožený transformation, where we focus on to control everything in life, so it is and Lenka Brychtová, PR and Communication
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Two decades in the Czech Republic Pardubice and Kutná Hora. Two towns, three production divisions and a logistics center – that’s Foxconn in the Czech Republic, whose origin dates back to 2000.
the most important employers in the 2000 Pardubice and Kutná Hora regions, but also thanks to the numerous activities through which it supports its two home regions. It provides its people with a stable background and certainty, as well as a range of benefits and interesting employee events.
Foxconn today is what it is thanks to all of us! And the issue you’re holding wants to show you that. We have prepared a separate poster featuring a timeline presenting the most important milestones in its 2020 development. Do you remember them? Let’s commemorate and celebrate this major anniversary together. Such as If we look back and compare Foxconn a wide range of cutting-edge products with one of the twenty birthday cakes 20 years ago with how it is now, we can for big name global customers. you can win in our competition. ■ see incredible progress in all areas. The company has grown considerably, has It has built itself a strong position in the some 5000 employees and produces region, and not just because it is one of Text: Lenka Brychtová, PR and Communication With whom are we laughing Foxconn is celebrating 20 years in the Czech Republic. This is a major milestone, one that deserves to be commemorated not only by our employees, but also by the public. For this we have launched the “For 20 years now” campaign, the main aim of which is to express a big “Thank you”.
Thank you for what the Taiwanese Each series will nostalgia. Whoever we have a laugh company has learnt from the Czechs with, sit around the fire or head off for during that time and for what it owes reflect the current a hike, they have to be a good friend to the Czech Republic. The campaign season and will or neighbor. And that is just what the consists of a series of several simple Foxconn family is after 20 years of visuals, which will accompany us present activities operating in the Czech Republic. You throughout the year. Each series will and customs typical can find a small taster of the campaign reflect the given season and will for Czechs and the on the back page of the magazine. present activities and customs typical What do you think to it? ■ for Czechs and the Czech Republic. Czech Republic.
The campaign elicits a sense of Text: Pavel Kožený, sympathy, a smile and a dose of PR and Communication Manager
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Let’s go back in time… Remember how the world looked when Czech Foxconn came into it? Look back through those memories – to the magical year of 2000. People and society Sport ▶ The president of the Czech ▶ Czech hockey team wins the gold Republic is Václav Havel. medal at the World Championship ▶ The first permanent crew in St. Petersburg. At the European enters the International Championship our soccer players Space Station. don’t even move up from the group. ▶ Karel Gott, Lucie Bílá and Lucie win Český slavík ▶ The Czechoslovak athlete awards. Emil Zátopek dies. ▶ The institution of ▶ At the Olympic the regional authority GGames in Sydney Jan was established. Železný wins at javelin final and a gold medal also goes to kayaker Štěpánka 2000 Hilgertová. Lifestyle World of ▶ TV shows computers include Kolotoč, ▶ Computers face Riskuj, Kufr, O poklad the problem of Y2K. Anežky České, Systems that did not DO-RE-MI and Pevnost use four-digit numbers Boyard. to write the year have ▶ The first edition of the difficulties. Simple repairs now legendary gaming series still destroy IT systems The Sims is launched, comprising to this day. a new genre – the life simulator. ▶ The I Love You virus affects ▶ A liter of petrol cost an millions of computers, unprecedented 29 crowns. Half completely wiping their data. a liter of beer cost 18 crowns. Technology ▶ A chip exceeding the magic The British charts were ▶ ▶ CD sales reach a peak. This is aided by the popularity speed of 1 GHz sees dominated by Baha Men of Discmans, the successor to Walkmans. the light of day. with Who Let the Dogs Out. ▶ The famed Nokia 3310 is launched on the market, and almost everyone in Europe wants to own one. ▶ The commercial production of USB flash disks starts. They have a capacity of 8 MB – that’s five times more than the diskettes used up to then.
Text: Pavel Kožený and Lenka Brychtová, PR and Communication
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SURVEY: Foxconn through the eyes of employees
Two decades is a long time in the life of a company. It is a time for learning, development, growth and change. Some are more visible, others unobtrusive, but all the more crucial for the running of the company as a whole. How is Foxconn’s transformation during those twenty years seen by those who know it best, i.e. the employees who were with the company from the beginning?
Questions In what areas has Foxconn changed the Why did you decide to stay with Foxconn 1 most in those twenty years? 3 from the beginning until now? What was the most powerful moment What will Foxconn (and the world around 2 you have experienced in the firm? 4 it) look like in another 20 years?
Karel Hejduk Driver (HR team – GS department, F Group)
manufacture and the associated a private jet and were then escorted gradual efforts to robotize production. by police vehicles on their way from Transport infrastructure at the Foxconn Pardubice airport to Foxconn. site has also improved rapidly. To put it simply, I love the I have experienced many beautiful 3 diversity of my work and the 2 and obviously impressive chance to gradually get to know the moments in Foxconn during all those Czech Republic and surrounding Foxconn has definitely come a long years. These include our cooperation countries that I visit on my trips. 1 way in terms of interpersonal with Chinese, Dutch and Scottish relationships. During the last few years employees, which was just starting in I’m not clairvoyant – so all I can I have seen some very positive changes the new firm twenty years ago. One 4 do it wish Foxconn all the best in how managerial staff act towards unforgettable and very moving moment for the next 20 years. And I hope that their subordinates. I also see a great for me and my colleagues was when it will become a firm with a 40-year deal of progress in the products we Terry Gou and Jim Chang arrived in tradition on the global markets. ■
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Although I’ll be retiring soon, when 3 I look back, I have to say that it Jan Dobrkovský was my job that always kept me Building Management motivated. My work on the Facility Specialist Management – Maintenance team is (Facility Management Team, D Group) neither dull nor monotonous. Every day I’ve dealt with dozens of different situations, such as emergencies and repairs. I have performed regular Foxconn has changed, not only in statutory overhauls, trained new 1 its production range, technical recruits, negotiated with suppliers, and layout and equipment, but also in its so on. That’s why I still enjoy this work people and their way of thinking. The after 36 years (I previously worked in company has built itself a good the original Tesla company). reputation here. power supplies to the individual buildings. We managed everything in That’s a very difficult question. I’ve experienced a lot of them, the end, mostly thanks to the 4 After all, the computers that were 2 but the most demanding was assistance of the substation operators made here in 2000 can now only be probably the replacement of 30 high- Jaroslav Novák and Ladislav Hovorka, as seen in a technical museum. Technology voltage 6 kV switches in the main E6 well as the staff of the supplier firm. is moving forwards very fast, and so it substation. That was biggest event in I think that the employees did not is very difficult to predict what Foxconn my career, as they had to be replaced even know the switches had been will be manufacturing in 20 years from while the plant was in full operation; replaced, but the job was absolutely now. But I hope it is a fruitful and we were unable to shut down the crucial for the operation of Foxconn. interesting time for us all. ■
The most powerful moment has 2 been recently, during the Coronavirus pandemic. People were working at a time when they feared for themselves and their loved ones, and managed to overcome all those different obstacles. Iva Škaredová DL Trainer I’m staying with Foxconn because I enjoy the interesting work with (Cisco production, G Group) 3 people, which enables me to constantly learn new things. What is also important for me is the team I work with. I’ve met lots of excellent colleagues here, who over time have also become good friends.
The world is becoming ever more I see progress in technical children’s home, various fundraisers for 4 connected and technologies are 1 development. New processes are animals or for aids for handicapped developing at incredible speed. So, being implemented in production and people. It also collaborates with I hope that people and Foxconn will work is being simplified. It is also great schools and with the construction of strive to take an environmentally- that Foxconn is taking more and more the BeFit center and the reconstruction friendly and humane approach to the of an interest in charity projects such of the canteen it is striving to improve world, with their main motivation being as gifts for the youngsters from the the working environment. something other than money. ■
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well-equipped offices. Other examples certainly include the Relax zones, the Jiří Müller Foxpark and the refurbished canteen. Production Manager In Foxconn I’ve been able to seek (Amazon Web Service, F Group) 3 work on new and interesting projects every 5 or 6 years. These One major change I see is in the have always been new things, new 1 company’s reputation and its challenges and new or old-new approach to its employees. Although colleagues. The variety of the work Foxconn became a major regional and the people around it – that’s employer twenty years ago, its reputation what keeps me here. was not so good. The public saw it as low-paid and dull conveyor belt How will Foxconn look in another production drudgery. I heard some I can’t remember one particular 4 twenty years? I imagine positive unbelievable rumours circulating about the 2 powerful moment. However, I can development, a greater portfolio of working conditions in the company. see progress in digitization and products and customers, as well as However, Foxconn has come a long way, automation, improvements in steps taken to implement Industry 4.0. especially during the last 3 years, and has production visualization, warehouse I believe it will further improve its become a company with an exemplary management and training, for example. status as a stable, healthy and open employee policy. The Kutná Hora I can also see changes in facilities and company at the regional and enterprise is even attracting job applicants the working environment. We have nationwide level. A nice working from local competitors. That would have worked our way up from the original environment and especially satisfied been unimaginable ten years ago. school chairs and desks to modern, customers and employees. ■
Jaroslava Jelínková so I’m always delighted when some of Controller and operator them come back, and their happy that we are meeting up again. (HP Accessories, D Group) Foxconn has brought stability and 3 certainty into my life.
I think that robots will start to When I joined Foxconn twenty and strives to take account of our 4 predominate in production. Even 1 years ago, it was just getting comments and suggestions. though people will continue to hold started in Pardubice. And it was far certain positions, the firm couldn’t from easy – we employees and the There have been a few powerful work without them. I also hope that company had to learn how to work 2 moments. As I work in Quality, Foxconn will continue to change for together. However, thanks to this during those years I’ve met lots of the better and the world as it is will Foxconn started to listen to us more people who have come and gone here, remain at least the same. ■
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new people and new experience. I have worked with a large team and Jitka Michková found the job fulfilling. Head of Production I have been lucky with my (Cisco production, G Group) 3 managers, who have given me plenty of space for self-fulfilment. I even worked with a manager at FGSD, who sensed that I didn’t enjoy my work and needed a change. So, There have been so many of just at the right time I got a new 2 those – perhaps the launch of project or task to enable me to the former LSS department (now recharge my batteries. FGSD). It was a pretty homely department at first, with just a few I’m not a visionary person, but Things that have definitely operators. Although it did grow bigger, 4 when I look at the world of 1 changed in Foxconn are the dining it was again reduced in size. This gave automation, I expect to see Foxconn culture and the relaxation zones for me the chance to work on a variety of going in that direction too. It will be employees, as well as the range of tasks, which was a challenge. I still see great if the firm remains a solid employee benefits. However, I must some of those operators today and employer in the region. And I’d be admit that it’s sometimes not easy to enjoy chatting with them. Another happy to see Foxconn talked about use or sign up for them due to lack of moment was the start of the Amazon as a firm that treats its employees time. project, which brought me new work, and job applicants decently. ■
but after returning from that trip I moved to the Production Quality Assurance (PQA) department at HP, where I still work. I am grateful to Foxconn for by extensive experience in computer hardware.
Pavel Kaplan I joined Foxconn straight after EOLA Specialist 3 school, so it was my first job. What I really appreciate here is the (HP production, D Group) excellent team, whom you can always rely on. My colleagues from PQA are as helpful as possible.
I’d like to see Foxconn continue In 2001 the firm started to build The firm enabled me to take 4 to develop in electrical enginee- 1 a new hall, in which I’ve worked 2 a business trip to the Longhua ring and gain lots of new projects. ■ since the very beginning and still district in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, do. And recently Foxconn has been where I trained for the new HP project. investing in development and I came back home from this trip after Survey prepared by: Lenka Brychtová, PR and Communication automation, which can only be more than 2 months. I started in Photo: Vendula Brdičková and Jakub Skyva, a good thing. Foxconn as a production line operator, PR and Communication
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COMPETITION A 20th birthday deserves 20 cakes! Celebrate together with us
Who doesn’t like birthdays and birthday cakes? Enter our competition and you will have the chance to win one of these cakes and celebrate Foxconn’s big anniversary together with your family or friends.
5) Two years ago we held the 1st How to enter Questions annual X-Day competition, through which Foxconn mediates 1. Read through our magazine and get 1) What date did the first financial support for charity all the information you need. employees of Foxconn CZ projects and individuals in need. 2. Answer the competition questions start work? The competition is open to and mark your answers. a) 1 April 2000 projects: 3. Send an email with the following details b) 1 May 2000 a) from all over the Czech Republic to [email protected] by 15 July: c) 15 May 2000 b) from all over the world a. as the message subject write d) 1 June 2000 c) from Prague “Competition: 20 years of Foxconn”, d) from the Pardubice and Kutná Hora b. in the body of the email write the 2) In which year was the New regions answers you think are correct, in the Hall (now building P1) format: 1a, 2b, 3c, 4d, etc. Then add your opened in Pardubice? 6) In which year was production name, surname and contact details a) 2000 launched in the new plant (email and telephone) so that we can b) 2001 in Kutná Hora? contact you if you win. c) 2002 a) 2008 d) 2003 b) 2009 c) 2010 Rules 3) What’s the name of the d) 2011 biggest event that Foxconn The competition is only open to employees holds in Kutná Hora and 7) Does Foxconn’s fleet of of Foxconn. Pardubice as an Employee shared cars also include We will draw 20 winners from the answers Day, followed by an evening environmentally-friendly we receive. concert for employees and electric cars? ▶ The winners from Pardubice can look the public? a) yes forward to a birthday cake from the a) Foxconn Fest b) no Foxconn BeFit café. b) Foxconn Festival ▶ For a change, the winners from Kutná c) FoxFestival 8) Foxconn has boasted an Hora can enjoy a cake from the acclaimed d) Foxconn Employee Day impressive title every year local confectioner’s U Kamila. since 2015. What is it? 4) When was the CNSBG division a) Exporter The cakes can be collected up until the (now G group) set up? b) Top-ten ranking in the CZECH end of August after arranging a date in a) in 2001 TOP 100 advance. We will be informing the winners b) in 2002 c) Pardubice region Employer of exactly how to receive their prize. c) in 2003 of the Year ■ d) in 2004 Text: Lenka Brychtová, PR and Communication
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Security risks of social networks Nowadays it’s hard to imagine life without social networks. In just the last decade they have become an integral part of the lives of billions of people and a functional element in many services. However, besides the countless advantages they bring and how easy they make things, it is important to also bear in mind the security risks they entail. Do you know then?
What was initially an inconspicuous by answering your security question How to prevent it? local social network, ten years ago or having a new password sent to It is actually easy to prevent your data Facebook saw a huge boom and your registration email. and accounts from being stolen. Simply became incredibly popular worldwide. follow these recommendations: The social networks that had If you were lucky, you eventually previously been used mainly by IT managed to log in after doing this. You Regularly change your passwords enthusiasts in their work thus spread then changed your login details, set 1 and keep them complex. Ideally amongst normal Internet users. And multi-factor authentication and began using a password manager, such as the free KeePass. they are now a crucial cornerstone of rectifying any damage done by the interpersonal communication. What perpetrator through your account – Use a different password for each risks are posed by social networks such such as unwanted posts on your wall 2 account. as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as or in your friends’ messages. Use multi-factor authentication. well as chat applications like However, a worse scenario might 3 WhatsApp, Snapchat, WeChat and QQ? have occurred, when you also lost Do not publish sensitive photos And can they be avoided? your access to your email account, 4 and data on social networks. If your especially if you use the same login accounts are stolen, the attacker Identity theft details for both accounts. In such will have unlimited access to them. Some of you or people you know have a case all you can do is watch with Think carefully about what infor- already probably been a victim of the horror as the attacker changes your 5 mation you make available on theft of your account and thus your photos, adds mocking or offensive social networks and to whom. Internet identity on social networks. posts in your name, or even Further advice and information in Czech And the scenario was mostly much the demands money from your friends. about safe use of the Internet and same… One day you attempted to log And there’s nothing you can do. social networks can be found at the in to your social network account, but This kind of attacker is practically following links: www.jaknainternet.cz, were surprised to receive a password untraceable and repairing the www.vimkamklikam.cz, error message. Then, when the damage done is a very complicated www.internetembezpecne.cz. ■ password failed for the second or third process. Your stolen photos, money time, all you could do was try to log in or data are lost. Text: Karel Plašil, ICT
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Think of nature and the world around On Friday 5 June we commemorated World Environment Day. It was first held in 1974, to draw attention to growing environmental problems, ranging from water pollution and global climate change to sustainable consumption and the illegal trade in animals. We are protecting the Foxconn environment (figures for 2019)
We have saved 516 MWh of electrical power
We have reduced our CO2 emissions by 237 tons per year
We have saved 12 700 m3 of water
We are environmentally Our waste recyclability friendly firm is now 97 %
We take a very active approach to- consumption and sorting bio-waste. local repairs on the water pipelines in wards environmental protection here Reducing electricity consumption was an Pardubice. This not only prevent in Foxconn. We implement an integral part of our activities. Last year possible leaks, but we also saved Environmental Management System we managed to replace 21 outdoor air a total of 12 700 m3 of drinking water and are the proud holder of the ISO conditioning units for more modern and in 2019. 14001:2015 certificate, within the fra- significantly more economical ones. In mework of which we set a variety of some workplaces in Kutná Hora and And what about this year? targets every year. What are they? Pardubice we also installed LED lights, We have also set ourselves new which have saved us a total of 516 MWh. environmental protection targets this Our successes Thanks to this Foxconn’s carbon foot- year, too. We again want to save Last year we focused on waste recycla- print has decreased by 237 tons a year! water and electricity, focus on recyc- bility, which we have improved to 97%. ling and reduce waste. We’ll let you In this area we concentrated particularly We are saving water know more soon. ■ on improving the sorting and visualisati- As part of our efforts to reduce water on of waste, reducing plastic consumption, last year we carried out Text: Petra Šmerdová, EHS
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Celebrating your work anniversary
Last year we started to celebrate your work anniversaries here in Foxconn. We want to show how much we appreciate you being with us, and also to reward you for your loyalty. Last year we gave out a total of 346 gifts to colleagues who had been with us for 5, 10 and 15 years. And this year?
We’ll finally have people who have It is now time to say thank you to everyone stayed true to our company for 20 whole years! And that’s not all. Have a go at our who stays true to us! little quiz, which reveals a lot. 4. What anniversary is celebrated by To enable you to fully enjoy the 1. How many gifts will we be handing most of our colleagues? celebrations, people will be able to get out to colleagues in 2020? a. 10 years together in larger groups and perhaps a. more than 700 b. 5 years even without a face mask; all this b. more than 600 c. 15 years year’s celebrations will be held in c. more than 500 September and October. You can look Compared with last year the total forward to a great atmosphere, with 2. What gender are most celebrants? number of people celebrating has all the celebrants receiving some a. women increased. 708 of our colleagues will be goodies as a gift. b. men celebrating their anniversary. Most of However, it’s now time to say thank them, an incredible 277 colleagues, will you to everyone who stays true to us! 3. In which division do we have the be in Kutná Hora. Yet the other groups We appreciate your loyalty and we are most celebrants, with 20 years? are not far behind. We have the most looking forward to celebrating and a. F Group (CESBG) “20-yearers” in G Group – 26! In D Group spending more years together. ■ b. D Group we will be having a big 15-year Text: Pavlína Šprachtová, c. G Group (CNSBG) anniversary with 41 colleagues. HR Business Partnering Lead Correct answers: 1a, 2b, 3c, 4b (there are 316)
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same time, we have kept our operations running and been able to ship products that in many cases have been essential to help the global fight against COVID-19. I can tell you that our customers are so impressed and thankful to all of you for that amazing effort.
The next period also comes with some uncertainty. As the general measures in society are relaxed there may a chance that we will see another rise in the number of cases, or we may face a second wave later in the year, as many experts are predicting. For that Stephen reason, we will keep many preventative measures running in our operations, and McKenna we will ensure that we will be ready to Vice-president and Executive react very quickly in the event of Director of F Group a second wave of the virus at any point in the future.
As for the business itself, so far we Without question, the last few months have not seen any significant impact have been dominated by the impact of on our orders and we even have quite the Divisions the Coronavirus on all of us and our a big order backlog in some areas. As families. We have faced a situation we go through the year it is difficult to never before seen in most of our say how this will develop, but the best lifetimes, with a great deal of way through is to continue to work uncertainty and fear and many hard hard and help our customers to be as decisions to be made. As the Czech successful as possible. government starts to relax many of Keeping up with the measures that were implemented, To finish, I would like to say a huge this is a good time to reflect on how thank you to everyone for sticking we have coped with the situation and together and helping each other also how we will manage in the weeks through the last months. I was so and months ahead. impressed as I met many people from production, from the canteen, security, Right from the beginning of the and cleaning staff, from the offices. situation I said and believed that the I was impressed by peoples’ attitudes, best way to get through it was to be willingness to listen and help us with together, as one team. That means our measures, by the ideas and management, all employees, support suggestions people have shared with staff and even the local community me and the management team and the listening to each other, providing help determination to work through this as and support, and looking out for each one big team. other. I have been so impressed and proud that we have managed to We will need to keep up this same do exactly that, even beyond my approach in the months ahead but for expectations. The result is that we have now thanks so much once again, enjoy met our number one objective of the late spring and summer with your keeping our employees safe. At the families and stay safe. ■
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The last quarter has been one of the our products to our customers on time. most difficult in my time at Foxconn. Two flew from Pardubice to Maastricht The COVID-19 crisis has proven a huge and one from Prague to Houston, Texas. challenge. As we complete 3 months managing this situation, I can say that I am Our DCN business saw all-time record very proud of how our teams have reacted Allan revenues during April as we reacted to to the crisis. I’d like to say a huge thank the significantly increase in customer you to everyone who stepped up to the Keown demand. In L5 we continued to make challenges in both keeping the factory safe Vice-president and Executive progress in taking on new customers and operational and keeping our supply Director of G Group and expanding the products we are chains running. Our disaster management building for existing customers. teams did a wonderful job and I would like None of this could have been achieved to say a special thank you to all of them. without the amazing support of our DL mean we are at the beginning of end colleagues, who worked flexibly and, in The crisis has brought about many of this crisis; I personally believe we are many cases, did a significant amount of changes, not least with many people only at the end of the beginning of the overtime to help us exceed customers’ asked to work from home, which was crisis and in the coming months we all expectations. I am truly appreciative of a significant change to our working lives, have a responsibility to follow the everybody’s commitment. myself included. I have to say it was company procedures and keep not as easy as I thought it would be. everybody’s safe. In G Group all three Looking forward to the next few Fortunately my kids are not at school yet of our businesses have performed months, hopefully economies will recover so I can only imagine how difficult it is extremely well in the last few months. quickly, and business will get back to to try to teach the children while trying In Cisco business we installed two a “new normal”. We have not seen any to work from home! My biggest challenge new production lines to cope with significant reduction in our forecast in working from home was trying to keep the transfer of additional volume from the next few months and have even my 4-year-old son from appearing on other Foxconn production sites and added shifts on some businesses. video conferences… and I admit I was exceeded our production target by 41 % Hopefully, this positive outlook will not successful on many occasions. in the final week of our customer’s continue as we move into the second quarter. We built orders for both the half of the year. ■ Although the initial emergency measures North American and Asian markets and are now being relaxed, this does not flew 3 specially chartered aircraft to get
The last 3 months have not been easy The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates for us. We have been in the middle of again that our economic, health and a worldwide challenge that has changed social systems largely depend on global our lives beyond recognition. It is only contributions and that without such right that I start by recognizing your cooperation and support from our commitment during this period, and by employees, suppliers, customers and sending my heart-felt condolences to partners alike, we would find it very hard our colleagues, friends and family who to fulfil our true potential. With this in may have lost loved ones as a result of mind, our number 1 priority remains the the pandemic. I truly hope that as welfare of our employees. We remain global citizens we are approaching the vigilant to the risks and we continue to Nicky peak of virus infections, and that this benchmark and apply all suitable health tragic experience will bring nations, and safety measures with the intention Monaghan governments, companies and policy of making the Foxconn Czech group of Vice-president and Executive makers together to support one companies as safe as possible. During Director of D Group another with a common responsibility the last 3 months, our performance in for the health and well-being of others. the Personal Computing Business have
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been limited due to a number of external Accessories business performed well year over year. Our target remains to factors. The most notable were the during the period, and the majority of continue in that trend by successfully shortage of materials from suppliers, supply was free of any interruption, as delivering excellent customer service who were forced to react to the global most supplier factories were in regions and high quality, for existing as well as pandemic, as well as delays in with lower infection rates. Although new services. transportation and customs, driven by we had originally hoped for year-over- backlogs and lack of capacity. year growth, when all things are As we look to the future, we can see The good news is that our order book considered, we are acknowledging the opportunities and risks. However we remained strong and assuming that we success of accessories during this time remain optimistic that we will continue are starting to see supply chain capacity and will be focusing on trying to attract to build on our success of the last return to normal, we should be in new customer demand by increasing 20 years in Pardubice, and strengthen a strong position to close orders during our portfolio. our reputation in the EMEA region, May and June and help our customer to demonstrating all of the benefits meet their customer expectations. It is We have noted several production associated with Regional not clear what the second half of the records in the Medical Devices division, manufacturing in the post-COVID-19 year will bring, but we are hopeful that and we consider the outlook for 2020 environment. by continuing to offer our existing to be very positive. In May, we customers the very best manufacturing managed to start providing services In the meantime I wish you all good and supply chain experience, we will be and in June, we started to supply health and repeat that we must learn in the best position possible to reinvent customers with spare parts. We are from and continue to respect the risks our business model(s) and face the delighted to see our volumes, scope of associated with COVID-19 and take challenge of the post-COVID-19 economy work, relationship, cooperation, and common responsibility for the health together. partnership with our customer grow and well-being of others. #staysafe ■
Audits and certificates are necessary An ISO certificate is not just a piece of paper that hangs in reception. It is proof that we comply with the requirements stipulated by the quality standard. It enables us not only to keep our existing customers, but mainly to gain new ones. This is particularly evident when a certificate is about to expire, and the requirements to have it renewed begin to pile up on all sides.
However, it’s not just the ISO that’s concentrate fully in order to respond important, but also other certificates exactly, present the correct evidence related to a product or process. During and not give the auditor any the course of the year we undergo opportunity to find any deviation from dozens of audits, one of the most the requirements of the standard. This demanding of which tends to be that is a test we have to pass. focused on the Quality Management System for medical devices conducted Therefore, we are lucky that the by BSI. This applies to Inogen auditor did not find any discrepancies, production and is far from easy, which is rare. However, this result especially with regard to the of the year, as we work through reflects the efforts that went into requirements we have to comply with several hundred notes and tasks. preparing for the audit. Thank you to right down to the last detail. Otherwise Moreover, this year’s audit was special, everyone who helps to build the we would run the risk of production as the auditor was unable to travel to quality management system by being shut down or products being our site due to the Coronavirus shaping these processes, changing withdrawn from the market. Therefore, pandemic. We had to conduct the audit them or “simply” following them. ■ the preparations for this audit are remotely via videoconferencing. During carried out for pretty much the whole the two days of the audit we had to Text: Filip Hanuš, Quality Manager
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Build a modern city without planning? Bad idea! Have you ever heard the collocation Enterprise Architecture? And do you know why it is so important for Foxconn? This a description of the organization and its key elements and the links between them. Let’s explain that a little bit more clearly. Implementation in Foxconn How did we start? By selecting suitable tools and methodology to help us quickly start making the right decisions. This phase was completed in May. Therefore, we have now focused on all the systems used in Foxconn – this means not only those administered by the SWD department – and have tested how they communicate with one another. When we have gathered all the relevant information, the analysis phase will start. We will evaluate the current systems and test them to see whether they are well designed and whether we use multiple systems for a single purpose or functionality. The result of this analysis will be a plan of how to optimize the application portfolio.
Responsibility The project will be headed by David Imagine a small town in the 18th containing all the key elements of the Šára in the role of Enterprise Architect. century, whose infrastructure consists technical networks such as subway He and his Architecture and Design of a road, canals and telegraph poles lines, water pipelines, the electricity Authority team will be responsible for – nothing complicated. A hundred years grid, and so on. ensuring that the company’s systems have passed, the town has grown and and infrastructure will effectively its infrastructure looks completely A city inside plants support the business strategy and different. We now have an electricity The situation is the same in every large needs of Foxconn. This will ensure that grid, a railway and telephone lines. enterprise. How will you implement everyone will use the most appropriate Another hundred years have passed a new system when you don’t know technologies and solutions. and we are in the middle of the 20th what systems you already have? How century. We now have water pipelines, do you make decisions on the This will be a tough task, filled with a subway system and motorways. optimization of the company if you challenges. We already now of some However, the town, now a city, don’t have an overview of the one hundred systems that are used in continues to grow, as does the processes and systems that you use? Foxconn. However, we are sure we can complexity of its entire infrastructure. To answer all these questions you do it. Each change or new building must be need to have a map of the current carefully planned to avoid having to situation. That’s why we at SWD have If you have any ideas or questions, keep demolishing the new parts in decided to implement and manage contact the Enterprise Architect by a few years owing to poor decisions. Enterprise Architecture that links our email at: [email protected]. ■ This kind of planning is not possible business processes with the software without a technical map of the city, systems and infrastructure. Text: David Šára, SWD
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#Together we can do it
Foxconn manufactures products that help in the fight against COVID-19, and in many cases is the only supplier of these products in the world. We are proud that, thanks to the preventive measures we have adopted, we have managed to keep production running. Keeping employees healthy and safe is our main priority. We are also a good neighbor and are helping people on the front line and senior citizens in Pardubice and Kutná Hora.
We supported Kutná Hora hospital and the Medical Rescue Service of the Central Bohemian Region by purchasing 10 ozone generators worth 120 000 CZK. These devices are used to disinfect the environment and remove odors, viruses, fungi and germs. Every day we have helped to provide fluids and refreshments for the Medical Rescue Service of the We have helped doctors and Pardubice Region (Pardubice base) medics, whom we have provided and the MRS of the Central Bohemian with 7 000 filtration class FFP2 Region (Kutná Hora and Čáslav respirators. They went to Pardubice bases). Thanks to Foxconn these Regional Hospital, Kutná Hora teams have enjoyed 1 600 snacks Hospital and the Medical Rescue prepared for them by the BeFit café, Service of the Pardubice Region for which this order was also very (Pardubice base). welcome in these difficult times.
We have provided medical material, We used our 3D printers in the which we delivered to the hospital in Industrial Engineering department Kutná Hora in one of the company’s of the Pardubice plant to produce vans. In total we transported around 70 protective face shields, which 18 500 FFP2 respirators, 115 000 face we donated to the pupils of the masks, 39 000 aids to protect eyes Studánka Elementary School, clients and hands, 900 protective suits, at the Tamtam Children’s Hearing 90 liters of disinfectant and 5 800 Center and deaf people through the quick tests. Tichý svět organization. Did you We have helped senior citizens know that it takes almost one day see their loved ones. We donated to put together a single shield? a generous 50 000 CZK to the people of Pardubice to buy tablets, which: “allow senior citizens to stay in touch with families and friends through video calls. After all, eye-to- eye contact is incredibly important for happiness and their state of mind,” explained Pardubice deputy mayor Jakub Rychtecký.
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Employees of our Pardubice plant have been just as busy. Another 1 200 handmade face masks went to the town of Pardubice, which distributed them to health-care and social facilities in the region.
Our employees got really stuck into sewing face masks for their colleagues and the general public. A total of 600 masks were then handed out in Kutná Hora, sewn for the town and the local community by Foxconn’s Mongolian employees.
We also came up with a witty Employee safety is our priority. education campaign: “Keep That’s why everyone in production a distance of more than half has received protective face masks a horse”, which was visible to the and disinfectant dispensers have people of Pardubice on billboards, been installed in our plants. The CityLight Vitrines and screens on toilets now have antibacterial soaps public transport. and are cleaned and disinfected more frequently. The beginnings and ends of shifts have been There has been a change to the system of issuing lunches, which changed so as to ensure were even provided free of charge that employees meet during the crisis. The various groups of employees have been allocated as little as possible in time slots in which they can use the canteen for their lunch break. Hand common areas. disinfectant dispensers by the entrance to the canteen and chairs Employees have their temperature placed at a safe distance are now measured as they enter the plant. a matter of course. In just one day in Pardubice and Kutná Hora heat-sensing cameras are used to carry out more than 10 000 automatic measurements and another 2 300 or so measurements are taken using contactless thermometers.
Thanks to the timely implementation of preventive measures and the responsibility shown by each of you we have got through this crisis with no positive case of COVID-19 in our Foxconn In Pardubice we now operate special plants in Pardubice and Kutná Hora. buses intended exclusively for Thank you for your efforts during this Foxconn employees, which are free difficult time! ■ of charge. Text: Pavel Kožený, PR and Communication Manager
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Satisfaction survey We’re keeping things moving
The last three months have really not been easy and we can’t say for certain that it’s all behind us. However, thanks to everyone’s efforts we have managed to get through this difficult period, and have even come out of it stronger than before. It might seem that the situation of the last few months has nothing to do with a satisfaction survey, but the opposite is true.
When other than in difficult times can extension of “safer” bus services. Some you can make use of your skills. We be show what we’re really capable of of these measures were inconvenient, have therefore added more places and what truly matters to us? And you others were very welcome – such as where you can find current job matter and have always mattered to free lunches. After the end of the crisis, vacancies. You can find out about them us! So, once again we want to tell you however, we can now say that all these on the noticeboards in from the about how we are working to increase precautions made sense and we canteens in Pardubice and Kutná Hora, satisfaction and fulfil the related succeeded in keeping all Foxconn on the television screens in both plants, commitments. We are continuing to employees safe. What can we learn or can simply take a look at myFOX strive to: from this for the future? It has clearly from the comfort of your home. In the ▶ offer you the potential for further demonstrated the importance of Career section you’ll currently find more growth (Career Planning), communicating with one another. than 50 vacancies in Kutná Hora and ▶ support the atmosphere in the Therefore, we will now be meeting up Pardubice! And, of course, you can also company (Atmosphere), much more often in production and we contact our clever recruitment staff. ▶ improve the conditions in which you will regularly be keeping you up to date work (Working Conditions) on news about what is going on in our If a particular position appeals to you, ▶ make sure that you understand the company. let your superior know. It is only fair remuneration you receive and feel that they should know that you’re motivated by it (Salary). What other activities have we been looking around for opportunities. focusing on in connection with the Sooner or later they’ll also have to look You’re our number ones satisfaction survey? for someone to replace you. For this When it all started our management had you can use the “Job Transfer Request” a clear commitment – the number one How to grow your career form, which you’ll find on Foxportal. priority is the health of our employees. We are a big company with lot of Then there’s nothing to stop you This saw the launch of several activities potential for growth. The key question from applying. – from the acquisition of several for us is therefore how we can support thousand liters of disinfectant, the you in fulfilling this potential. The road How does it work? provision of sufficient numbers of face towards a promotion or change of Before our colleagues from recruitment masks and the introduction of position starts with opportunity. So, we find out you’re interested, visit myFOX temperature measurements using want to make it easier for you to find to fill in several details about yourself. thermal camera, through to the start or the positions you desire and in which You’ll then meet your potential new
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superior and a recruitment officer in an of you would appreciate it if your programs” lasting several months. interview about you, your experience, superior helped with personal These programs, which combine skills and motivation. And you’ll also development. theory with practice, will gradually be find out more information about your completed by everyone who manages potential new workplace. If everything Supporting people in development is people – i.e. from group leaders through turns out well, you can transfer within one of a manager’s main tasks. to management. There are currently two months. If you’re unable to find “A good manager gets satisfaction 58 managers involved in these the right position, don’t despair. We are from seeing the team succeed it its programs and others are joining all the opening up new opportunities every objectives and becoming autonomous. time. This development should help day. And if you know of someone He is happy when he sees that his managers to improve communication who’s looking for work, let us know people are growing. He therefore in the team and outside it, with the and receive a reward. concentrates on the development of provision of feedback, setting priorities the team and does not focus solely on and other key skills. We are helping managers to tasks, deadlines and problems. He be better focuses on the people as such. He How does it work? “I have already set Did you know that surveys have shown talks to them about their up development meetings with some that satisfaction or dissatisfaction with development, what they’re good at people from my team, during which your manager is one of the three main and what they want to do, and also I am helping them to develop in areas reasons for quitting your job? Even takes an interest in how they feel,” that are important for their work and though satisfaction with one’s explained HR Director Michal Batelka. professional growth. I know that they superiors has always been one of appreciate the time I am devoting to Foxconn’s biggest successes, there Leadership training them,” explained PMO Manager Irena are still areas that offer room for To enable your superiors to support Augulisová, who herself participated improvement. For instance, 50% of you even more, our colleagues from the in the program. ■
you would welcome more frequent Training and Development department Text: Pavlína Šprachtová, HR Business feedback from your superior, while 57% have prepared special “Leadership Partnering Lead
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Working Environment program Even when we’re faced with the consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic, Foxconn is still aware of the importance of the working environment. The Working Environment program will therefore continue!
In addition to the main team that production in L5, while in Kutná Hora operates throughout the company, work is under way to improve the other independent teams have been reception area and renovate the set up in the individual divisions, which canteen. are tasked with mapping and evaluating the environment in Pardubice and Kutná And that’s certainly not all. A number Hora. The satisfaction survey and the of other projects relating to the wor- aforementioned environment mapping king environment are under way in the identified areas in which the Pardubice and in Kutná Hora. The working environment currently most Working Environment teams together needs to be improved. The main team Pardubice, for instance, on the with the divisional executive directors submitted those areas to the individual construction of relaxation zones and are continuing to work to improve the executive directors, who will now the renovation of the toilets in building working environment and set out the decide on how the improvements to P1. Minor improvements will be made company standards. On behalf of the the environment will proceed. at the gatehouses and the lifts in project team, thank you to everyone building Z1A will be renovated. We are for your cooperation. ■
Yet many projects are already being also implementing the LEGO project, Text: Andrea Škorpilová, head of Working implemented now. Work is continuing in which will improve the environment in Environment project
Old doesn’t mean obsolete There is a new main feature in the entrance hall of Kutná Hora Foxconn. The refurbishment of the reception area was finally completed in May, including the installation of the new reception desk. What happened to the original wooden one?
Fortunately it didn’t have to be thrown away, but has received a new lease of life. Since May it has been part of the professional hairstyling service training salon in the partner Secondary School and Secondary Vocational College of Crafts. “With the reception desk we are improving the look of the entrance corridor to the hairstyling training cen- ter. One part is to be placed in the hairstyling salon, while we will be putting the other part in the school foyer, where it will help improve securi- ty and check the movement of people in the building. Thank you, we are very grateful,” added Karel Polívka, head of professional training. ■
Text: Jakub Skyva, PR and Communication
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News from the myFOX The HRIS team and the HR teams are still working to simplify and improve processes to make your day-to-day work easier, not only in myFOX, but in Foxconn as a whole.
Now, for example, we are working hard to implement the LMS training module, which will bring online and presence courses to myFOX. Functionality relating to training in the workplace will remain in inFOX. The training module will be available for full use at the end of June and beginning of July.
Guides and answers To enable us to better assess the need for the further development of the system, since last October we have been holding regular meetings with colleagues from HR, with Business Partners or Ambassadors in Pardubice and Kutná Hora. Besides continuous assessment and this, we’ve also updated the development of individuals and the myfoxconn.cz website, where you team so as to fulfil the objectives What you’ll find in can find information from the world of the individual departments and the PMGM module of myFOX, an FAQ and some simple the company as a whole. Thanks guides. For managers we’ve also to the training completed in the added a new tab, “Guides for last few months, managerial ▶ Setting targets, continuous Managers”, where they’ll find, for employees are now able to assessment of targets and regular instance, instructions on changes to properly create objectives that are communication between managers working hours, advertising positions, adequately ambitious, motivational, and their teams. and a new guide to the PMGM clearly defined, comprehensible and ▶ Provision of feedback and the option to assessment and target-setting transparent. They can also focus request feedback from colleagues from module. This module unifies the on longer-term development goals the company’s various departments or approach to the management, that support personal growth. from external co-workers. leadership and development of our All other IL employees can get ▶ Planning development activities to IL employees and has been available to know how to use the module improve performance and for since the beginning of this May. thanks to the e-learning course in personal growth. the Training Module. How to log ▶ Continuous evaluation of successes What the PMGM module into the new module? The same achieved and the option to link them enables way you log into your profile in with a specific target. The PMGM (or Performance myFOX – in the main menu via the ▶ Mobile application fully supporting Management and Goal Management) sections Objectives, Performance continuous performance assessment. module motivates and unifies the Assessment, Continuous ▶ Data constantly available to managers approach to the management, Assessment and Development. ■ and IL employees from leadership and development of our anywhere. All that is needed is Text: Pavlína Novotná, HRIS team, IL employees. what does this mean, Markéta Vašinová and Josef Douda, an Internet connection. specifically? Basically it involves the Training and Development Team
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ahead of me now. It’s a little stressful, but it’s also a challenge to get everything right.
Challenge – Definitely the transfer to my current position. With no deeper knowledge of the production planning process I had to pick everything up very quickly and start to work with my team Petr Pokorný, and the customer’s teams in Prague and in France. HP Production Planning Supervisor in D Group Pleasure – I’ve made myself happy at Foxconn since January 2015 just recently – I bought myself a new mountain bike, so I’m in the saddle almost every day now. Alarm – Every day – unfortunately at the weekend too – I wake up Foxconn – I like the friendly team without an alarm clock at 5:50 and and fairness. I’ve met a lot of have a shower. I can’t start the day people here, whom I also get without that. After I arrive at work together with outside work. I check my emails and information from the afternoon and night shifts. Around the world – I’d really like to travel around America. And one day Responsibility – I’m in charge of I want to experience diving with Get to know me the production planning team for a great white shark. our customer HP. We decide which orders will run on the production Vent – I do that best on the bike. line to meet the customer’s I used to ride competitively. I put requirements and priorities and also music in one ear and head off to to maintain optimal production. discover some unfamiliar places nearby. I’ve also started reading Impulse – I get my daily boost from books more recently. my morning shower and sport. And also when I succeed in coping Passion – I regularly treat myself to with a bigger change – either at some modern electronics and also work or at home. There’s one enjoy looking after my car. ■
Alarm – As my husband goes to Sense, which is a reporting tool used work at six o’clock in the morning, to create analyses from various data Do you want to know how I get up early with him. I live fairly sources. I deal with customer your colleagues live? What close, so I often walk or cycle to requirements throughout the divisions their desires, dreams and work. It’s a nice way to fully wake and develop applications with reports. up. And by 6:30 I’m already sitting Qlik offers an easy solution, such as daily habits are? Get to at the computer, where I have for production planning or a detailed know three interesting a cup of green tea and read my analysis for seeking the possible people you can meet in the emails. causes of problems.
corridors and production Responsibility – I’m the Business Impulse – When I see the halls of Foxconn. Intelligence administrator in Qlik applications that I develop being
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used by someone to acquire new Around the world – I love information. My husband and I are snorkelling. That‘s why my dream also redoing our garden, which is is to see the Great Coral Reef in now finally starting to look good. Australia. And also visit the Great Everything is green and blooming. Wall of China. I’ve already been near it, in Hong Kong, but haven’t Challenge – In order to be able to yet been to see it. properly process a request for the development of an application, Vent – I enjoy going for walks I have to understand the data and with my dog or cycling. My what the customer wants to see Barbora Chadimová, husband and I have also recently in the graphs. My toughest project Business Intelligence been watching travel programs was therefore the JIRA ticketing Administrator in G Group on the TV and so have at least system for Qlik. been doing some virtual at Foxconn since August 2018 travelling. Pleasure – I’m happy that all my family has come through the It’s nice when someone then Passion – I have been diving current the situation safe and leaves us a thank you note. since I was little and I love sound. And as we have swimming. And now I’ve got disinfectant, we leave it on the Foxconn – The color blue and really into gardening – I finally fence for others to use for free. SWD. have the time for it. ■
matters and then go for breakfast been good times spent with friends with my colleagues. It’s then and family. a normal working day. Foxconn – A major production Responsibility – I’m in charge of program with lots of people, whom it the DOTHILL (SEA-GATE) project, provides with work and security. I like which involves the daily receipt it here. That’s why I was very happy and release of material to the to return to Foxconn after a short customer. And also various other break. work associated with the warehouse and packing exports. Around the world – If I could head off with a backpack tomorrow, I’d go Impulse – My main driving force is to Scotland, Ireland and New Zealand. Pavla Hráčková, my twelve-year-old son David. And They’ve appealed to me since I was SAP Operator at RSCWH we definitely have a great team at a child. in F Group work. We often have a laugh and this makes the work less stressful. Vent – I love walking. It clears my at Foxconn since 2005 head and does me good. I also spend Challenge – What’s hard now is time at my parents’ place and in the that shifts are split into morning countryside away from the town. Alarm – I usually get up at 5:30, to and afternoon, as I have to help make breakfast and a snack for my my son with a lot of homework Passion – I love going to concerts son to take to school. I then walk since the schools have closed. with friends. I really miss them all to work – it’s only 1,5 km, so it’s now, so I’m looking forward to a great stroll to get my body into Pleasure – There’s not a lot of it everything getting back to normal. ■ gear. When I arrive I see what around at the moment. That’s why
needs doing and plan what’s ahead I make the most of every happy Text: Vojtěch Babka, Project Coordinator of us. I deal with any urgent moment. Recently these have all and Jakub Skyva, PR and Communication
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How good is your imagination?
Traveling changes a person. It is a chance to get away from the stress of work and get to know other places, their cultural heritage, customs and cuisine. A person comes back from their travels not only refreshed and full of energy, but also enriched with new experiences, memories and perhaps even a different view of the world.
Worried that you won’t be able to through a Google search. Either enter the as www.pamatky3d.cz, travel very far on holiday this year? relevant keywords or just switch straight www.virtualtravel.cz and Don’t despair. The Czech Republic also to Street View, which is essentially www.360travel.cz., which provide virtual offers lots of beautiful places that are a huge library of panoramic photographs, tours not only of famous places and well worth a visit. And if you’re missing which lets you see almost the whole of monuments in the Czech Republic, but remote and exotic destinations, there’s the world from all different angles. And also the beautiful sights in destinations a solution for you, too. It’s called virtual if art is more your thing, Google can help abroad, such as Jamaica, Peru, New reality. out here too, or its Arts & Culture site. Zealand, Iceland, Croatia, Slovakia, Poland and many others. It’s then very simple. You now see virtual reality almost In the Czech Republic You can view the place you have everywhere you go. Such as on the selected from all sides. Want to see the social networks, where you can view you can visit all the landscape bathed in the morning sunlight 360 photographs and videos uploaded UNESCO sites, the from the Ještěd transmitter? Or perhaps by your friends. Well, this also works every detail of the lavishly decorated the same for traveling. Nowadays there interiors of the National entrance to the Cathedral of St. Lawrence are countless applications that let you Museum, the route of in Trogir? Virtual reality will let you see all use affordable gadgets to visit places the Jizerská 50 or the this with your own eyes without setting literally all over the world. All you need foot outside your living room. is your telephone, computer or tablet. Jara Cimrman Museum. How to go about it? A return to ancient times It presents a unique gallery with more You say you’ve never wanted to go Virtual tours of the world than 78 million works of art from 650 back in time? If you’re willing to buy or One of the basic forms of virtual partner institutions that have provided make a pair of VR glasses, virtual reality traveling is the 3D animation of popular their works on display to be will let you take a look back into the tourist destinations, which provide photographed. Each work is past. This lets you admire the beauty of a 360° view of the scene. These enable accompanied by photographs, videos castles and chateaus during the height you to walk through the gorgeous and, in some parts, even audio guides. of their glory. This type of tour has natural scenery of the Slovak Karst or Drink in the charm of van Gogh’s Starry been refined to perfection at Tratzberg the beautiful interiors of Lednice Night, study every detail of Rembrandt’s chateau in Austria, which is situated Chateau. You can also admire the The Night Watch, or succumb to the near Innsbruck. After putting on your splendour of the triumphal arches in beauty of Michelangelo’s Adam. You’ve virtual glasses you’ll find yourself in Paris, Rome and Bucharest. Or head into got all the time in the world for it. 1492. What do you see? The whole of the underground catacombs in Znojmo. the chateau is in flames! Columns of The Internet is full of these virtual tours, Other options are available on the smoke rise around you and you literally and so most of them can be found websites of a number of projects, such sense fire everywhere. This unique
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Cardboard glasses Not sure if you’d use professional VR glasses at home? Make your own! It’s not difficult – you can find a detailed guide in Google Cardboard, which will guide you through the whole process of making them and recommend where to get the necessary parts. What will you need apart from the template? A largish piece of cardboard, 2 lenses, 2 magnets, a rubber band, 4 Velcro fasteners and glue, or double-sided adhesive tape. Then you just need a bit of skill and there’s nothing to stop you heading off on your virtual adventures.
virtual reality stimulates all your senses Therefore, in the last few months It’s not just about traveling and simulates this horrific chapter in there have been a number of If virtual traveling appeals to you and the chateau’s history with all that goes initiatives which try to bring the you’re willing to buy some special VR with it. Is that idea too frightening for outdoor world and travel experiences glasses to do it, you are opening the you? Don’t worry. The virtual glasses to older people in retirement homes. door to a wealth of unexpected will then take you through the entire “Thanks to virtual reality we can take possibilities in virtual reality. And 500-year history during which Tratzberg our grandmothers and grandfathers in traveling is just the very start. Google chateau became what it is today – homes to far-flung places they could has created an application called a renaissance gem above the river Inn. never otherwise visit. And treat them Cardboard, which is essentially a library to some incredibly suggestive of all different types of virtual For those who can’t experiences that, according to recent experiences. Just choose what you Everyone yearns to see the world. scientific studies, can improve their fancy! Want to become the hero in People like discovering various unknown cognitive abilities and even slow the a horror story that won’t let you fall corners – even if they’re just in the next onset of dementia,” says Marek Háša, asleep at night? Or what about soaring town. And from time to time there’s no for example, author of the Kaleido with the birds amidst the clouds? Or harm in revisiting the places where we project. He has launched do you yearn to discover unexplored grew up or that we have fond crowdfunding campaigns to provide galaxies all throughout the universe? memories of. While most of us can retirement homes with VR glasses With virtual reality not only is this all physically visit these places with our and to create applications with trips possible, but it’s actually surprisingly family or friends, many people do not not only around the Czech Republic, simple. ■ have this option, either due to but also in the Netherlands, Austria, a handicap or poor mobility in old age. Great Britain and Slovakia. Text: Gaja Koláčková, COT media
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Summer with a touch of nostalgia The holidays will be different this year. Whether you make them different yourselves or not – this is a great opportunity to remember how you spent the summer as a child. Or draw some inspiration from how your parents and grandparents spent it in the old times.
In the past there wasn’t much carefree fun with the minimum of rules months were full of restrictions opportunity to travel, so most of us and an incredible sense of freedom. and rules. Now, however, it is the spent the holidays here in the Czech opportunity to break free from all that Republic. At the cottage with our So, it’s no wonder that almost all of us and clear your head of all those worries parents, at the outdoor pool or in the remember our childhood with a tear of and tasks – both at home and at work. woods with friends, as well as at nostalgia in our eye. Many of us spent But how to do it? camps or at our grandparents’ place. it without all the modern technologies Whether you lived in a small village in that it is so difficult to break away Camping in style the middle of nowhere or in the hustle from today. They existed, no doubt The hot summers of recent years have and bustle of the big city, the holiday about that. But few people wanted to been perfect for trips into the shade of months always had something in sit at a computer during the holidays. the woods and time spent by the common. They were time packed with So, this year try it too. The spring water, so why not relive the romance
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of camping and sleeping out in the one hectare. Each is unique, has its countryside. Return to the analog own route plan and contains Travel diary past. There are lots of ways to camp educational trails with local history, nowadays, and some of them are nature and ecology attractions. You pretty luxurious. Or perhaps you can find them near Kutná Hora and How to make this summer feel like a little retro with a touch Pardubice, so you have an afternoon an unforgettable one? Start of luxury? of fun literally just around the corner. writing a holiday diary, either Just make sure you don’t get lost and or your own or with your Try the trend that caught on in the that when you come out your group children. In summer people Czech Republic a few years ago. It’s has the same number of people as tend to experience most known as glamping, which is derived when you started. from the words glamorous and camping. It basically means combining Tasty refreshments luxury with camping and so is the A barbecue in the garden, a picnic in ideal way to spend the summer for the town park or on the banks of anyone who wants to get close to a pond, an ice cream on the square. nature while still enjoying some luxury Summer is full not only of sunshine, and all the mod cons they’re used to. but also fragrances and flavours. The Forget those little tents or wooden trees and bushes are heavy with chalets where you bang your head peaches, currants, raspberries and when you get out of bed. These blueberries, as well as the first apples camp site operators have let their and pears. Whether you buy them imagination run wild, so nowadays from that nice fruit and veg stall on you can stay in the treetops, on the corner or pick them in your own a houseboat in the middle of a pond, garden, you can make an incredible in apiaries and yurts, in a straw house number of delicious goodies with or in medieval military tents. And them. With a bit of ice and water you what’s more, all these offer every can easily make yourself a tasty fruit modern convenience, including power drink, which you can liven up with sockets, bathrooms with running a sprig of mint. Blueberries and water and big comfortable beds. You strawberries are ideal ingredients in can lave your flashlight, sleeping bag sourdough dumplings and you can and mess tin at home. Or give them to make homemade ice cream from new things, and it’s hard to the kids to take to camp. pretty much anything sweet. There’s remember them in all their an art to it, but it’s definitely worth diversity. So, get yourself an Get lost in the corn the effort for that delicious taste. ordinary notebook or use a big You’ve taken some time to relax from calendar and every day write the little ones, who are going crazy Why is it such a challenge? When you down the most interesting with the other kids on a camp out in freeze cream or fruit puree at home, things you’ve experienced or the countryside, and are thinking of coarse water crystals form on it, seen. Add stamps from the what to do next. Test your sense of which grate on the tongue and have castles and chateaus you visit, direction in a maze or labyrinth. There none of the flavor of the added fruit paste in train tickets, flowers, are lots of these all over the Czech and other ingredients. To prevent this tickets to the summer cinema Republic. You can find a large labyrinth from happening, you need to keep or postcards. Get your children of youngish conifers at the chateau in stirring it until it freezes and sets. to draw a picture of the Nové Hrady or on the banks of the The more you stir it, the better your places you visit. You might Tichá Orlice in Brandýs nad Orlicí. And ice cream will be. However, the time want to draw some there’s a huge set of 12 different and effort you put in really pay off. inspiration from these mazes and labyrinths in the park by So what flavor will your summer memories sometime in Loučeň chateau. In many places mazes be this year? ■ the future. ■ are also cut in corn fields during the summer, which generally cover around Text: Gaja Koláčková, COT media
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It’s in your hands
When something unforeseeable happens, it generally sends us off the rails. This is how we are by nature. A change can take us out of our comfort zone and thus cause stress. However, even a “crisis” can be coped with and something positive can be drawn from it. You just have to grasp the problem by the right end.
Coronavirus has affected each one of us. assist in achieving something big in the At one point we might have felt the end. Remember that huge wave of anxiety, when events started to get out solidarity when sewing and supplying all Did you know that… of control. Whatever situation arises in those face masks… Your own thoughts Stress and the art of coping with our lives, it is crucial to have at least and attitude to situations in your life it strengthens your mental well- some sort of control over what happens are in your hands. Looking at the world being. So, take every crisis, to us. Yet when things start to get in a positive light is a great skill and conflict and minor quarrel as tough, this might seem like a difficult often work for the whole of your life. training in how to cope with task. Some of us get angry, feel And times of crisis often force us to difficult situations in the future. hopeless, casting the blame on others… improve our values. You do not have Be willing to experience stress. This only thickens that negative black the power to change what has already It will always be unpleasant cloud gathering over us. At times like happened, but you can start to respond (like getting back under a cold these it is good to ask: do I want to be to it positively. Important questions to shower), but in reasonable enveloped in clouds? Unlike the weather bear in mind are these: where do I want doses increases and other global factors, your personal to focus my ideas, my attention, my your resistance to inner self is in your hand. What to behaviour? And where not? stress itself. do when you get bogged down by stress or simply get angry at something? Learn to control what’s going on and don’t worry too much about the rest. Let the sun shine We all instinctively seek safety and Find out what’s happening a certain regularity. They give us As soon as you start to feel peace of mind and comfort. Once uncomfortable, stop for a moment again, it’s very much down to and realize what is actually us how we organize our happening. Around you and inside environment so it is pleasant you. Try to sooth those turbulent for us. Stress is a natural part emotions and think with a cool of life, although the saying head, as they say. Rein in your “everything in moderation” is imagination, to stop it flying off particularly true here. Treat into catastrophic scenarios. You yourself to plenty of time to relax know the old saying: nothing is as hot doing what you enjoy and what is as when it’s boiling. Don’t let clouds compatible with a healthy lifestyle. darken your mind. How much control can Give yourself time to rest, get some you have over the current situation? Is exercise, spend time with friends. If the problem coming from outside you? you are unhappy about something, Think what good or necessary things think what steps you can take to you’re able to do for yourself. improve the situation. What about listening to your body more, It starts in your head communicating better with There’s almost always “something” others or working on your that can be done, which is better bad habits? ■ than not doing anything at all. Even a small helping hand can Text: Renata Kučerová, COT media
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