More Than 100,000 Apply At Foxconn's iPhone Factory

More than 100,000 people have signed up for a massive recruitment drive by Apple’s supplier Foxconn for the largest iPhone factory in China, according to Chinese state media, Michelle Toh reported for CNN Business.

Photo Insert: The news comes after a COVID outbreak last month forced the site to lock down, leading some anxious factory workers to reportedly flee.

The hiring spree comes at a time when Apple is facing huge supply chain constraints at the assembly plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou and expects iPhone 14 shipments to be hit just as the key holiday shopping season begins.

“The quota is finally met. And our hiring process is now closed temporarily,” a Foxconn executive, Yang Han, in Zhengzhou told state news outlet Yicai on Thursday.

The news comes after a COVID outbreak last month forced the site to lock down, leading some anxious factory workers to reportedly flee.

Videos of many people leaving Zhengzhou, capital of the central province of Henan, on foot had gone viral on Chinese social media earlier in November, forcing Foxconn to step up measures to get its staff back.

To try to limit the fallout, the company said it had quadrupled daily bonuses for workers at the plant this month.

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