{"id":1025935,"date":"2026-08-04T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025935"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:13:49","slug":"in-electronics-factories-across-india-women-are-taking-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/04\/in-electronics-factories-across-india-women-are-taking-the-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"In electronics factories across India, women are taking the floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru\/New Delhi &amp; Chennai: Every morning, thousands of young women board company buses headed for Foxconn\u2019s manufacturing campus at Devanahalli on Bengaluru\u2019s outskirts. The influx has transformed not just the lives of first-generation factory workers from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, but also the local labour market. Foxconn\u2019s aggressive hiring has triggered wage inflation across the Devanahalli region, forcing smaller manufacturers to struggle to retain workers and increasingly offer higher salaries and incentives to compete for talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengaluru\/New Delhi &amp; Chennai: Every morning, thousands of young women board company buses headed for Foxconn\u2019s manufacturing campus at Devanahalli on Bengaluru\u2019s outskirts. The influx has transformed not just the lives of first-generation factory workers from Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, but also the local labour market. Foxconn\u2019s aggressive hiring has triggered wage inflation across the Devanahalli region, forcing smaller manufacturers to struggle to retain workers and increasingly offer higher salaries and incentives to compete for talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025958,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025935\/revisions\/1025958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}