E-commerce firms are boosting the hiring process to meet the increasing consumer demand in this festive season. As per a report, around 3,00,000 new jobs have been created in the sector so far and more than 5,00,000 more jobs are expected to be added till this Diwali.
The demand for gig workers has seen an increase of 40 percent, with a higher demand for delivery workers. Quick-commerce, QSRs, retail stores, FMCG, and FOS (foots-on-the-street) salesmen are the most in-demand roles other than delivery executives.
Gig platform Taskmo said that it has witnessed a 50-70 percent increase in seasonal hiring from e-commerce platforms, especially since July, due to the festival season. The platform said it was completing around 500,000-600,000 tasks per month, up from 300,000 in May.
Prashant Janadri, co-founder of Taskmo, said, “We have witnessed around 8x to 10x increase in tasks completed during the last two weeks. We have onboarded around 4x more gig workers than mandated to meet the e-commerce demand, with significant participation coming from tier-2 and tier-3 cities.”
Hiring in the logistics domain has also increased as e-commerce companies are trying to crunch their delivery time. In fact, the fast-growing third-party logistics segment is expected to add 800,000 jobs by December 2022.
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