The Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China, is offering a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan to find assemblers of new iPhones.
Sina said that iDPBG, the department responsible for assembling iPhones Foxconn, is overflowing to public transportation points in order to attract workers. Foxconn is the largest contract manufacturer of apple . About half of the world's iPhones are assembled in the company's factories.
Foxconn recruits on a large scale to find iPhone assemblers
"Foxconn is hiring at a highway intersection" is becoming a hotly searched keyword on China's Weibo social network. On the WeChat account, iDPBG constantly publishes recruitment information with attractive salaries. New recruits can receive 6,000 yuan (VND 20.8 million ) per month, with a living allowance of about 3,000 yuan (VND 10.4 million), depending on living conditions and overtime hours. The average salary of an iPhone assembly worker is 8,000 yuan (VND27.8 million) per month.
Those who have worked in the factory will receive an additional bonus of 5,400 yuan (18.7 million VND) if they come back. The new employer will receive a commission of 500 yuan (1.7 million VND).
Sina quoted Foxconn worker Yang Xiaoming as saying that they have started working overtime for 8 to 10 hours a day in the past few weeks. Some production lines for iPhone 14 have also begun to be put into use.
According to experts, Apple plans to launch a new generation of iPhone in September. According to the plan, sprint production will be carried out from July to August, so Foxconn must expand worker recruitment at this stage.
Foxconn declined to comment on the above recruitment information. However, Sina quoted internal sources within the company as saying that the main reason for early recruitment was that some other Apple factories were in squalor due to the epidemic. Many Apple orders have been transferred to Zhengzhou. In March this year, Foxconn temporarily closed its factories in Longhua and Guanlan, Shenzhen due to the epidemic. Two days later, the factory resumed operations after pledging to comply with local government closure procedures. On April 12, Pegatron's two iPhone assembly plants in Shanghai and Kunshan also suspended operations to comply with the government's epidemic prevention regulations.
analyst Ming Zhiguo predicts that iPhone 14 will have four models, including iPhone 14, 14 Max, 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max. The product is scheduled to go online on September 13, but production progress is slow. According to Nikkei Asia reports , if it fails to proceed as scheduled, the new generation of iPhone may be postponed to October, similar to the previous iPhone 12. This could cost Apple $8 billion.
