Manufacturing facilities struggle to fill labor-intensive shift work as workers reject low-wage, long-hour factory jobs

Factory operators in Taiwan and China face critical workforce shortages for repetitive, physically demanding positions (early morning to late evening shifts) that workers increasingly avoid due to poor conditions and low pay. Current recruitment methods fail to attract sufficient labor, forcing factories to explore humanoid robot alternatives like the Zhiyuan Spirit G2, indicating the acute pain of unsustainable labor costs and worker retention.