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iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers’ movement on campus, potentially complicating the effort to resume full production. Apple Inc.'s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers' movement on campus, potentially complicating the effort to resume full production. Foxconn Technology Group is sticking with measures adopted weeks ago limiting staff movements in order to handle a Covid outbreak, according to a person familiar with…

Apple Inc's wide exposure to Chinese manufacturing, notable both for its low costs and rising risks, has receded. Apple Inc's wide exposure to Chinese manufacturing, notable both for its low costs and rising risks, has receded since the COVID-19 pandemic began, company supply chain data shows. With the world's biggest iPhone factory, operated in central China by Foxconn, battling production shortfalls and labour unrest spurred largely by Beijing's harsh virus containment policies, analysts expect the risks - and…

More than 20,000 employees, most of them were new hires not yet working on the production line, have left Apple supplier Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant. More than 20,000 employees, most of them were new hires not yet working on the production line, have left Apple supplier Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant in China, a Foxconn source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The person said the departure was set to complicate the company's previous target to resume full production by the end of November, following worker…

Foxconn apologised for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production. The company that assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones apologised on Thursday for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production.Employees complained Foxconn Technology Group changed the terms of wages offered to attract them to the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou. Foxconn is trying to rebuild the workforce after employees…

The world's largest iPhone factory in central China told staff Tuesday it would quadruple their bonuses if they remained at the plant. The world's largest iPhone factory in central China told staff Tuesday it would quadruple their bonuses if they remained at the plant after scores of workers fled a Covid outbreak at the facility. China is the last major economy committed to a zero-Covid strategy, persisting with snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines in a bid to stamp out emerging outbreaks. But new…

It was Sunday when Dong Wanwan decided to give up her job at the world’s largest iPhone factory and walk home. It was Sunday when Dong Wanwan decided to give up her job at the world's largest iPhone factory and walk home.The 20-year-old had been working for the past three months on the production lines at Foxconn Technology Group's factory in Zhengzhou, one of tens of thousands helping put together Apple Inc. iPhones that would be sent around the globe. It was a coveted job, among the country's best-paid blue-collar…