Many Chinese Companies Now Subsidize Employee To Buy Huawei Phones; Apple Boycott Grows

Karamchand Rameshwar - Dec 25, 2018

More Chinese companies are offering incentives for employees to buy phones from Chinese producers or threatening them not to buy Apple products.

China companies are throwing their support behind the tech giant Huawei after it has been under a lot of pressures in the last few weeks, especially Huawei’s CFO being arrested in Canada under a US request. And now Chinese firms are reportedly offering subsidies or even threatening them not to buy any products of Apple.

According to Nikkei Asian Review, some of the companies even offer their workers huge subsidies on Huawei’s products, with discounts mostly being from 10 to 20 percent or even covering the full amount. More than 20 companies also came to social media to state that they will purchase Huawei’s products more, such as the company’s business management system.

Some Chinese companies are even taking more aggressive approaches to change their mind, while other firms are opting for less intense actions. While Shenzhen Yidaheng Technology is offering their employees an 18 percent discount when purchasing smartphones from ZTE or Huawei, each of the employee of the Shanghai Youluoke Electronic and Technology can get two free smartphones of Huawei. In the same time, Fuchun Technology offers up to CNY 500 (around Rs. 5,100) bonus before the end of 2018 if its employees can prove they purchase those phones.

Many Chinese companies are encouraging their employees to buy Huawei smartphones

While some Chinese companies are offering attractive incentives, other companies prefer a more aggressive approach. A Shenzen-based machinery manufacturer even reportedly threatened its employees to get rid of Apple products or else their phones might be confiscated or they might even get fired for not complying. Employees of Shenzhen Yidaheng Technology were also threatened to be fined for having an iPhone at an equivalent amount of that iPhone.

Apple also faced the older iPhone devices China ban by a Chinese court on 10 December. Although the US tech giant claims that they have managed to solve this issue with a software update, Qualcomm is still trying very hard to fully ban iPhone sale in China.

However, it doesn’t just stop there as iPhone 7 and 8 sales were fully banned by a German court just some days back.