iPhone. Shortly after the first analysts began to present a much more "rosy" situation for the evolution of sales of Apple's iPhone phones, now we have something completely different. More precisely, other information coming directly from China tells us that due to poor sales of the iPhone, those from Foxconn are forced to reduce the salaries of the employees who work on their assembly, but including the benefits they receive.
iPhone. Those from Foxconn reduced the salaries of the employees together with a reduction of the effective working hours for them, and this is due to the fact that the sales of the phones are far below expectations. Although normally those from Foxconn produced iPhone phones at maximum capacity for 4-5 months every year, for the 2018 models this process lasted only 20 days, so much, much less than what happened in other years .
iPhone. POOR Sales Affects a LOT of People
iPhone. The salaries of the employees dropped from 600 dollars per month to 450 dollars per month. and the decrease is substantial for people who need all the money to pay their rent and eat every month. The salary cuts, and the reduction of working hours, were confirmed by dozens of Foxconn employees, so it is quite clear that the problems that iPhone phones still have with sales, seriously affect Apple's partners as well.
The shuttle bus service to the workers' gloomy dormitory compound has been cancelled, forcing some to walk for up to 40 minutes to get to their rooms. The cancellation of the shuttle service is routine during the Lunar New Year holiday, but normally it resumes when production picks up again. But not this year, as the service was canceled earlier this month, long before. Small but important perks have also been scaled back. A free laundry service was cut at the beginning of the year for the first time, with employees now having to pay 7 yuan (US$1) to wash a load of laundry, while dry cleaning an overcoat costs 18 yuan (US$2.7).
iPhone. Things are so bad that even the free transportation between the factory and the employees' dormitories was canceled, they had to walk up to 40 minutes to get to their rooms. Poor iPhone sales have left employees without free dry cleaning, and so we see how Apple's bad decisions about its phones are impacting tens and tens of thousands of people in China.
