After being trapped in the factory for months due to COVID-19 restrictions, the workers will be allowed to return to their homes today.
Workers have been sleeping in makeshift accommodations, but will be able to leave as they clock out of their Friday shifts, marking the end of months of less-than-ideal working conditions.
The staff had to be isolated inside a factory bubble in order to stop the outbreak.
Some were told to sleep in old military camps and share beds with other people.
The closed-loop system will be ending this month and will bring home more than 10,000 employees.
It's not clear if they can return home for good. Mass testing is a part of the country's controversial zero COVID strategy.
It is possible that city-wide measures could once again be reintroduced.
It's not clear what that could mean for the employees of the company. Even if the government were to impose a lock down, it should be the responsibility of the company to make reasonable accommodations for its workers.
It's not pretty when companies force employees to live on company property before.
It's not clear whether the government in Shanghai will actually hold the electric car maker accountable.
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