Many stores around the factory were closed, and a few restaurants were open sporadically with Andy Lau’s New Year’s Eve song playing loudly. However, the dormitories in the living area still had many lights on, and there were still workers in uniforms walking past on the street.
Attracted by the “New Year in Place” initiative and the stay-at-Home bonus, Foxconn has retained many people this year. Xiong Sheng is one of them. He is a grassroots manager, responsible for recruiting and managing assembly line employees.
It’s a bit lonely to spend New Year’s Eve alone in the field, but I’m used to it after so many years. “Xiong Sheng said that in past years he occasionally needed to stay behind and go back home to Yunnan every other year for New Year. His business group has a total of 40,000-50,000 people, and this year more than 30,000 of them have chosen to stay behind. “It should be the most crowded year. “
On New Year’s Eve, he met up with a few colleagues and drove his newly purchased white car to the park. In the evening, they wandered around for a long Time before finding a Hunan restaurant that was open for business and did not have to wait in line, and ate a New Year’s Eve dinner together.
From the age of 20, he has been working in Foxconn for 12 years, and slowly made his way to the management position. Most of his colleagues around him have more than 5 years of service. He and his colleagues feel that even though they do not earn much money working in the factory, Foxconn is still more formal than the small factories that deduct wages at every turn.
The manufacturing giant Foxconn has two main parks in Shenzhen: Longhua and Guanlan. The huge parks accommodate a large number of employees, and the Longhua plant alone has about 200,000 people, comparable to a local county.
The 2021 Lunar Chinese New Year is also the largest number of people ever to stay in Shenzhen for the New Year, with 16 million people expected to stay in the mega-city, which actually manages a population of more than 22 million, according to Shenzhen Business News.
With workers coming from all over the world and the current trend of the Epidemic returning, employees are likely to face long periods of isolation back home, delaying their return to work. Foxconn then used various ways to encourage employees to stay in Shenzhen for the New Year.
“Are they being forced to marry, are they being matched? What can we do to solve our worries? The only way is to stay. A banner posted in the Foxconn factory went viral during New Year’s Eve, Xiong said, adding that there are many other banners, large and small, in the factory to encourage stay-put.
Workers value benefits and bonuses more than anything else. Foxconn started giving out Spring Festival gift packs to all employees as early as January, including daily necessities and snacks. The stay-at-home bonus is also “sunny”: from February 5 to 20, excluding the three rest days, if employees clock in and out, they will receive a full attendance bonus of 1,200 yuan and The total amount of overtime pay for legal holidays is 2400 RMB.
From New Year’s Eve to the third day of the Lunar New Year, grassroots employees are also subsidized for meals, and they can have free breakfast and a full meal in the cafeteria every day. In addition to those who went out to eat like Xiong Sheng, many workers had their New Year’s Eve dinner in the canteen.
The canteen “has free big chicken legs,” said one Foxconn worker. Another young security guard said he was given a box of noodles and a carton of milk for Chinese New Year, and a bowl of dumplings on New Year’s Eve.
Most employees have two days off for Chinese New Year: New Year’s Eve and the first day of the month. According to Foxconn’s official public website, except for security and other special work, most of the production line employees are off during the Chinese New Year, and some of the “lights-out factories “According to Foxconn’s official public website, in addition to security and other special work areas that require staff to be on duty, most production line employees are off during the Chinese New Year.
Xiong Sheng’s department produces Apple phones, perhaps because of the iPhone 12’s best-selling, and he said last year was his busiest year since he started working. “Despite the epidemic, last year was the busiest year for me, with the most overtime. “
Pacific Securities research report in early February that this year, the global consumer electronics downstream market demand is hot, coupled with a large number of domestic workers in place for the New Year, the overall supply chain supply will continue to go up a step. Societe Generale Securities also believes that the New Year in place will be “high consumption + low production” characteristics of the break, reducing the hometown population and speeding up the resumption of work.
In Xiongsheng’s hometown in Yunnan, relatives will gather to kill pigs and chickens during New Year’s Eve, walk around all the relatives in the village for a day, and gather at the elders’ homes to eat a big meal in the evening, and eat Soup dumplings on the first day of the New Year. But in Shenzhen, in addition to using video calls to talk to relatives in the Family, he did not feel much of the city’s New Year’s flavor, a person living alone, he also did not eat the dumplings.
Talking about the future, he said that the current monthly income of “ten thousand dollars”, never dare to think about settling in Shenzhen, a city where the average price of housing exceeds 50,000 and the urban area exceeds 100,000.
In this way, after two days of short vacation, Xiongsheng started a busy work again.
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