Chinese authorities are recruiting workers from villages and busing them to Foxconn’s iPhone assembly lines after the Apple partner suffered a staff exodus from its central China factory last month during a Covid-19 outbreak.
The problems at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant caused by Beijing’s strict zero-Covid regime forced Apple to cut estimates for high-end iPhone 14 shipments this month in a rare warning to investors ahead of its peak holiday sales season.
Now local governments in Henan province, where the plant is located, are trying to repopulate the iPhone production lines, with Chinese officials working to help Foxconn maintain production.