{"id":1018311,"date":"2026-07-02T08:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018311"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:22:18","slug":"white-collar-hiring-dips-for-fourth-straight-month-in-june-gcc-recruitment-bucks-trend-foundit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/white-collar-hiring-dips-for-fourth-straight-month-in-june-gcc-recruitment-bucks-trend-foundit\/","title":{"rendered":"White-collar hiring dips for fourth straight month in June; GCC recruitment bucks trend: foundit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s white-collar hiring has entered a sustained slowdown after touching a high in February, with companies pulling back on fresh recruitment. According to the latest foundit report, the hiring index has fallen for four consecutive months \u2013 from 404 in February to 385 in March, 370 in April, 348 in May and 331 in June, representing an 18% decline from the February peak. Hiring in June was 9% lower than a year ago and 5% below May, signalling that employers have become increasingly cautious amid an uncertain business environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s white-collar hiring has entered a sustained slowdown after touching a high in February, with companies pulling back on fresh recruitment. According to the latest foundit report, the hiring index has fallen for four consecutive months \u2013 from 404 in February to 385 in March, 370 in April, 348 in May and 331 in June, representing an 18% decline from the February peak. Hiring in June was 9% lower than a year ago and 5% below May, signalling that employers have become increasingly cautious amid an uncertain business environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018355,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018311\/revisions\/1018355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}