Festive hiring boom shifts to tier II and III cities as demand surgesTemporary hiring for festivals is now expanding beyond major Indian cities. Tier II and Tier III markets are experiencing faster growth in ...
23 Aug, 2026, 10.14 AM IST
Festive rush: Quick commerce firms to hire 35-40% more temp workers, demand surges for tech-savvy talentQuick commerce platforms anticipate hiring thirty to forty percent more temporary workers this festive season. This surge reflects increase...
11 Aug, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
India ready for a premium wealth show while US missiles rattle the worldIndia's festive shopping season is set to highlight the country's premiumisation boom despite global uncertainty triggered by the US-Iran w...
01 Aug, 2026, 11.59 AM IST
Flipkart’s food delivery foray; Swiggy CEO on qcomm competitionFlipkart will launch its food delivery pilot next month, CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
24 Jul, 2026, 07.59 PM IST
Analysts see online platforms hiring 15% more this festival season; but onboarding faces delayPer Teamlease, the rise in festival season hiring will largely be driven by demand in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. While the proposed hiring n...
25 Aug, 2025, 10.01 PM IST
Amazon opens up over 1.5 lakh temporary jobs in run-up to festival seasonIncluded in these are direct and indirect job opportunities to meet the needs at the ecommerce giant’s fulfilment centres, sort centres, an...
18 Aug, 2025, 07.25 PM IST
High festive sales pitch sets tempo for temp hiring; demand to surge 15-20% YoYThe festive season is set to generate 600,000-700,000 temporary jobs across various industries, with a 15-20% increase in demand for such p...
10 Aug, 2024, 07.02 AM IST
As demand surges and staff fall sick, temps deliver the goodsApart from demand for workforce in deliveries, related roles like warehouse management and customer support services have also surged acros...
20 Jan, 2022, 05.35 AM IST
300,000 to half a million seasonal jobs to be created this festive seasonThis festive period, 300,000 to half a million seasonal jobs are likely to be created as demand for temporary staff surges up to 35% over l...
02 Sep, 2021, 08.07 AM IST
Jobs to come back in second half, monthly Monster posting nearly doubles: Quess CorpThe staffing major said even though there was a significant drop in demand in Q1 (April-June), it has seen a surge in queries from ecommerc...
05 Nov, 2020, 04.02 PM IST
Ecommerce rules in festive temporary job creation as companies go all out to push salesStaffing firms such as Manpower, TeamLease Services and CIEL HR Services said ecommerce is accounting for a bigger chunk of their overall m...
17 Oct, 2020, 08.19 AM IST
Temp hiring numbers surge as GST helps formalise economyThe number of new temp jobs is likely to touch 300,000, up from 130,000 last year, they estimate.
10 Nov, 2018, 08.38 AM IST
Demand for delivery jobs much higher than availability: ReportJob site Indeed in its report said there is a rise in hiring by ecommerce companies, particularly for temporary workers like delivery and w...
31 Oct, 2018, 06.26 PM IST
Amazon, Flipkart likely to create 120,000 new temporary jobs as festive season kicks inAmazon India & Flipkart are likely to create 120,000 temporary jobs to service anticipated demand surge.
29 Oct, 2018, 06.57 AM IST
Not just offers, Amazon and Flipkart also create thousands of jobs in sale seasonIndia’s biggest ecommerce companies Flipkart and Amazon alone contributed to the creation of over 42,000 temporary jobs with their festive ...
25 Sep, 2017, 09.43 AM IST
Ecommerce companies like Flipkart, Snapdeal and others shopping big time for temporary staffFlipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon, LG, Samsung and Panasonic are among the companies that are set to ramp up temporary workers by up to 35 per cen...
24 Sep, 2016, 10.33 AM IST
About 6 lakh new temporary jobs likely to be created in India this year, salaries set to rise by up to 20%Demand is seen driven by ecommerce, retail, IT, FMCG, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI) and healthcare companies.
30 May, 2015, 09.50 AM IST