Apple iPhone maker Foxconn is witnessing a mass exodus of newly hired employees at its Zhengzhou plant in China. Over 20,000 workers have left the manufacturer just a day after violent protests broke out at the facility. The protests and subsequent lockdown in the city are already disturbing the manufacturer’s production timeline. The mass scale of departures is expected to further worsen the condition.
A report by Reuters claims that most of the employees leaving the manufacturer were new hires and had not yet started working on the production line. The company had earlier planned to resume full production by the end of November. This could cause a cascading impact on Apple’s targets as well, considering that the Zhengzhou.
