At the end of the year, some ceramic enterprises in contemplating year-end  bonuses, but some people began to worry about their own jobs. Since 2015, increasing ceramic enterprises stop production lines without exception. "Labor shortage" is in manufacturing of high frequency words, times have changed, now production workers are facing unemployment risk. From the perspective of the serious situation of the demand of the market and inventory, ceramic enterprise overcapacity will bring labor surplus, which "labor shortage" will become history. At present, the situation of most of the ceramic enterprise management is high cost and low efficiency. In order to cut costs, and healthy survival and development, enterprises have to layoff production workers.

Start “Diet program”

Ceramic enterprises since the second half of 2015, especially in the claims in the history of the most difficult times, were bound by the environment, product prices, resulting sharply reduced production orders and benefit. Most enterprises are affected by different level. Near the end of year, the bank reduce temporary loan, it is easy to cause some enterprise financial strain extremely. Some enterprises which have stable quality products, markets and orders, might forced to join the army of stop production. Large number of companies shut down without warning, has brought the enormous impacts on recovery of confidence in the market, deteriorating market conditions are even worse than expected.

The machine substitution may reduce employment

In the north and mid-west of China,  the number of ceramic enterprise employees of many is directly connected with their order quantity. Actually, ceramic enterprises orders in general is different, due to seasonal changes, so that they need to hire more workers in high season and reduce kiln workers once less orders. All the year round, although the number of workers has ups and downs, but the change is not big. For some relative enterprises, in addition to the part of the development factors, they need to reduce labor cost by introducing automation equipment to replace the original employment number, from the latest achievements in this year Guangzhou ceramics exhibition display, ceramic mechanical equipment automation will be more applied in the whole industry, so that the enterprises could be more focus on the investment of professional management, technical production in high efficient and product innovation.