iPhone manufacturer Foxconn is reportedly building hostels for about 60,000 employees near its manufacturing facility in Chennai as it aims to boost the production of Apple devices. Foxconn will also provide both food and medicine for new quarters.
The first facility will be able to accommodate 20,000 people, and is expected to be ready in the next ten months. Apart from the hostels, the company is also constructing new manufacturing facilities inside its Sriperumbudur plant. According to experts, this policy to construct housing facilities is “just an emulation of one part of a strategy that worked elsewhere”.
Foxconn manufactures iPhones at its facility in Sriperumbudur. The contract manufacturing company employs over 15,000 workers, most of which are women. In the next 18 months, the number of employees is expected to go up to 70,000.
At Sriperumbudur factory, the company is also manufacturing Made-in-India iPhone 14. Apple started making iPhones in India with the iPhone SE in 2017 at its contract manufacturer Wistron’s facility in Bengaluru. Apple is yet to make any of its top-end iPhones in India like the Pro or Pro Max series. Also, the iPhones made in India are for domestic sales within India only.
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