KOLKATA: As the country shops online, and leading players including Amazon and Myntra open up their sales ahead of Independence Day, demand for temporary staff, particularly in delivery roles, is seeing a spurt led by ecommerce, staffing firms such as Quess, TeamLease and Manpower said.
The other big segments recruiting temporary staff in sales, advisory, content development etc include health insurance companies and insurance aggregators followed by edtech sector, leading to creation of more jobs at a time when most industries continue to reel under the impact of the Covid-19 crisis.
Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Delhivery, Swiggy, Vedantu, Unacademy, PNB MetLife and Tata AIG are among the companies hiring, said staffing firms.
“While it is early days, given the trends of sales, ecommerce reporting between 50-100% growth of order volume and new customers on their platforms – it should be a good year as rest of the economy reopens and restarts,” said Lohit Bhatia, president – workforce management at Quess Corp. The staffing firm has seen hiring demand from ecommerce as well as delivery companies in essential services like groceries, food, medicines, etc.
Source: The Economic Times
