Foxconn’s Zhengzhou campus, which has about 300,000 workers, has banned all eating in and asked workers to take their meals back to their dormitories starting from 3pm on Wednesday, according to a notice on the factory’s official WeChat account.
The company will provide three meals to the workers for free, and some departments, such as the integrated Digital Product Business Group – the division directly responsible for Apple iPhone assembly – have also been offered transport subsidies to get back to dorms. These workers have also been offered an additional 50 yuan per day bonus for reporting to work on time amid the new restrictions.
The Zero COVID restrictions may be limited to China, but their impact continues to be felt outside of China, as supply chain disruptions continue to roil the global economy. A looming iPhone shortage is but the latest example of this.
They can take our lives, but they will never take our [brick Nokia] freedom!
Oh noes! Whatever will I do without the latest iPhone? ;)