More women, freshers migrating for better blue, grey-collar jobs: ReportJob-related migration is surging by 31.4 percent as more women and freshers seek better jobs and pay beyond their hometowns. This trend sig...
17 May, 2026, 02.40 PM IST
Skills favoured over formal degrees in blue-collar hiring: ReportMumbai's job market is changing. Employers now prefer workers with practical skills over degrees. 'Less than Tenth' is the most sought-afte...
15 Jan, 2026, 04.33 PM IST
India’s blue-collar crunch: Skills shortage deepens as attrition and absenteeism riseIndia's blue-collar sector grapples with a significant talent shortage, marked by rising attrition and increased demand for skilled labor. ...
15 May, 2025, 12.16 AM IST
Women hold just 1 in 5 blue-collar jobs, shows surveyWomen in India's blue-collar workforce represent only 20% of jobs, despite 73% of employers hiring them in 2024. Sectors such as retail and...
13 Mar, 2025, 02.44 PM IST
Quick commerce driving blue-collar employment; India to see demand for 2.4 million jobs by 2027The sector added 40,000 employees last quarter to handle increased festive shopping and ecommerce demand. The main roles that quick commerc...
09 Jan, 2025, 01.54 PM IST
India’s tourism and hospitality sector saw 50% jump in hiring in 2023Indeed’s quarterly tracker also shows that blue-collar hiring in the industry saw an overall 8% increase compared with the year-ago period....
17 Jan, 2024, 06.03 PM IST
Economic revival spurs demand for blue-collar workers in IndiaData from Qjobs, a hiring solution for blue-collar jobs by Billion Careers, a Quess company, showed 39% year-on-year growth in the number o...
11 Mar, 2023, 09.50 AM IST
Blue, grey-collar job vacancies see 4x jump in last one year, says new reportThis robust demand can be attributed to the dynamic job market influenced by digitisation, automation and changing work models, said the re...
06 Jan, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
Blue-collar jobs scene looking brightAccording to the data, the number of job vacancies in the blue and grey collar industry increased by 301% in the past year to 10,542,820 in...
06 Jan, 2023, 12.23 AM IST
The pandemic has made it easier for your driver to find a job nowA segment majorly dominated by word-of-mouth referrals, blue-collar hiring is now seeing an encouraging jump in online recruitment.
09 Jan, 2022, 10.03 AM IST
Blue collar hiring sees significant uptick across job categories: QJobs dataThere has been a 320% growth in overall new job openings added in the blue collar hiring market during Q2 (July-September) of FY22 compared...
21 Oct, 2021, 03.41 PM IST
October-December hiring intent touches 18-month peakThe latest TeamLease Employment Outlook Report, shared exclusively with ET, shows that 41% of the surveyed companies intend to hire in this...
07 Oct, 2021, 10.47 AM IST
How tech can drive away hiring bluesStaffing firms are employing apps and online onboarding tools to shortlist and employ blue-collar staff, as companies look to tap a workfor...
14 Aug, 2021, 11.30 PM IST
Covid impact: Companies scale down blue-collar jobs in small townsBlue-collar hiring in tier 2 and tier 3 towns have come to a grinding halt in the last 4-5 weeks even as a lot of small and medium-sized ma...
25 May, 2021, 10.39 AM IST
70% employers resume hiring for blue collar jobs: SurveyAbout 60 per cent of employers stated that they have faced no challenges in availability of talent, despite the fact that a large number of...
14 Apr, 2021, 05.17 PM IST
Mumbai, Bangalore lead in recovery of blue-collar jobs in India, says surveyIn Bengaluru, 90% of companies surveyed confirmed their intent to increase the hiring of blue-collar and entry-level workers in the third q...
30 Jul, 2020, 11.59 AM IST
It's a job well done at Quikr, thanks to blue-collar marketThe company claims a 3x growth in revenues within the jobs vertical in FY17 -a large part of which has been driven by a "healthy balance be...
10 May, 2017, 08.44 AM IST