Apple supplier Foxconn starts new hiring spree at world’s largest iPhone factory in China ahead of next product launch

Foxconn has raised the bonus that each new worker gets at its Zhengzhou plant to US$1,345 when they stay on the job for more than four months upon enrolment

Apple’s prime iPhone supplier has also accelerated signing up returning employees, offering them a US$1,420 bonus after four months on the job

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The world’s largest iPhone factory, operated by Foxconn Technology Group in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, typically rolls out hiring incentives every summer. Photo: Shutterstock

Published: 9:00pm, 28 Jun 2022

The world’s largest iPhone factory, operated by Foxconn Technology Group at its vast production complex in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, has started a new recruitment campaign that offers generous cash rewards to workers, ahead of the expected refresh of Apple’s flagship product in the second half of this year.

Foxconn, the world’s biggest electronics contract manufacturer, has started hiring new trainees and assembly line workers, raising the bonus each person gets to 9,000 yuan (US$1,345) when they stay on the job for more than four months upon enrolment, according to the latest recruitment notice published on Monday by the firm’s integrated Digital Product Business Group, the division responsible for iPhone production.

The Taiwanese company, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, has also accelerated signing up returning Zhengzhou employees, offering them the same salary for positions they held before leaving the firm as well as a 9,500 yuan bonus after four months on the job, according to the Foxconn post.

The large-scale hiring campaign comes after Foxconn’s move to suspend recruitment of assembly line workers in May, when the Zhengzhou local government imposed a seven-day lockdown in the city as part of Covid-19 control measures.

Jobseekers form a queue outside Foxconn Technology Group’s gathering point for new recruits in Zhengzhou, capital of central Henan province, on October 15, 2020. Photo: SCMP

Foxconn typically rolls out hiring incentives every summer to boost production at its Zhengzhou plant, which accounts for 80 per cent of the iPhones released worldwide, months ahead of Apple’s annual launch of new models of its flagship product.

In June last year, returning Zhengzhou assembly line workers were each offered a signing bonus of 8,000 yuan. Last August, new recruits received a record-high bonus of 10,200 yuan for staying at least 90 days on the job after enrolment.

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