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Progress and challenges to improving working conditions with our Fairphone 2 manufacturer
Good Working Conditions 18 August 2016
When we began working with Hi-P in 2014 to produce the Fairphone 2, we made our goals for worker welfare clear: to collaboratively improve working conditions, employee engagement and employee representation. Now that we’re over a year and a half into our partnership with Hi-P, we’d like to give ...
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December production update: How production, workforce and delivery are intertwined
Good Working Conditions 03 December 2015
As Value Chain Director, I work to increase positive social and environmental impact throughout our product’s value chain, and that’s a pretty long chain, starting with mineral sourcing, and extending through manufacturing, design and life cycle. As I’m a recent addition to the team, I’ve immediately started working with ...
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Partnership beyond the first tier: social impact with sub-supplier GSN
Good Working Conditions 15 October 2015
Fairphone 2 allows greater opportunities to build relationships and programs beyond first tier suppliers since we created our own custom design. Owning our design allows us to select more of our phone’s components, as well as reach out to and build relationships with individual sub-suppliers that share our values ...
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Social Assessment Program begins at our manufacturer Hi-P
Good Working Conditions 08 April 2015
In October 2014, four team members of TAOS, our assessment partner, visited the facilities of Hi-P, the production partner for the next Fairphone. They spent three days on factory walkthroughs, numerous document reviews and interviewing workers in both the factory’s cafeteria and a private meeting room. Read an update to ...
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The path to finding our new production partner: Hi-P
Good Working Conditions 19 February 2015
Late last year, we informed you of our intentions to develop our own phone using a new commercial model to gain control over the product design and have more influence on the ensuing supply chains. In addition to that, we wanted to ensure that the product that we would be ...
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Our next steps with Guohong, the manufacturer of the first Fairphone
Good Working Conditions 25 November 2014
In our strategy blog two weeks ago, I wrote that our new approach to phone design and development would trigger some additional changes in our value chain. With that in mind, we would like to share some news about Guohong, our manufacturing and design partner for producing the first ...
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First Worker Welfare Fund proposal approved
Good Working Conditions 12 September 2014
For factory workers at our production partner Guohong, this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival (also called the Moon Festival) coincides with the outcome of the first Worker Welfare Fund proposal. For the first proposal formally approved by the Worker Welfare Fund, the workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of a special bonus ...
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Worker Welfare Fund: Electing worker representatives
Good Working Conditions 28 July 2014
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Chongqing in central China to visit our production partner Guohong where Fairphones are produced. But this trip wasn’t about our upcoming production; instead we were focused on activities related to the Worker Welfare Fund, specifically worker representative elections. These first elections at the ...
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June Production Update: Getting ready for mass production
Good Working Conditions 25 June 2014
It’s busier than ever at Fairphone’s production partner Guohong, and we’re counting down until mass production starts. While you wait for your new Fairphone, we wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s been happening in the factory in China the past couple weeks. Design and production testing Before final ...
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