Faithful subcontractor of Apple, the Taiwanese Foxconn is in charge of a major part of the world production of iPhone. We learn this week South China Morning Post that the group has launched a major recruitment campaign to strengthen the workforce of its factory in Zhengzhou: its largest production site. It is in this factory, located in eastern China, that about 80% of iPhones are manufactured, underlines the SCMP, which adds that this wave of summer recruitment is usual for Foxconn while the production of new iPhones ( in this case the iPhone 14, expected at the start of the school year) will begin to be in full swing.
Beyond strengthening its workforce, Foxconn again wants to encourage its new employees to stay, at least in the medium term. This year, the firm would thus offer an incentive bonus of 9,000 yuan (about 1,270 euros) to new employees who would still be in post four months after their recruitment. In the same dynamic, Foxconn is also appealing to its former employees, offering them to return to their position and the same salary as before their departure… in addition to a bonus of 9,500 yuan (1,350 euros) at the after four months.
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These efforts are also being made in the context of post-lockdown recovery. In May, Foxconn saw its Zhengzhou factory idling following local confinement. A measure, relatively impactful for the industry, imposed by the Chinese authorities as part of the “zero covid” policy desired by Beijing. Earlier this year, a long lockdown in the Shanghai region also hampered the activities of 192 Apple contractors.
Note, however, that similar bonuses were offered to Foxconn employees over the same period last year… and more or less with the same conditions. The objective for the group is mainly to ensure stable production for the crucial period of the next few months. The idea being of course to bring full satisfaction to Apple, its biggest customer, with regard to the mass production of its future iPhone 14.
Apple, on the other hand, should stick with Foxconn no matter what. Because if the firm has already tried to shift the production of part of its products elsewhere than in China, in particular in India and Vietnam, this alternative remains (for the time being) hampered by the lack of manpower. qualified on site.