{"id":1020348,"date":"2026-07-13T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020348"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:43:23","slug":"airtel-slows-hiring-expands-contract-workforce-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/airtel-slows-hiring-expands-contract-workforce-in-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"Airtel slows hiring, expands contract workforce in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel slowed hiring in FY26 even as it expanded its contractual workforce. While its overall headcount declined only marginally, the telecom operator saw sharp declines in both fresh recruitment and internal appointments. <\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s FY26 annual report, Airtel\u2019s on-roll workforce stood at 20,116 at the end of March 2026, down 194 employees, or 0.96%, from 20,310 a year earlier. The number of contractual employees rose 8.38% to 80,123 from 73,929, an increase of more than 6,000 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bharti Airtel slowed hiring in FY26 even as it expanded its contractual workforce. While its overall headcount declined only marginally, the telecom operator saw sharp declines in both fresh recruitment and internal appointments. According to the company\u2019s FY26 annual report, Airtel\u2019s on-roll workforce stood at 20,116 at the end of March 2026, down 194 employees, or 0.96%, from 20,310 a year earlier. The number of contractual employees rose 8.38% to 80,123 from 73,929, an increase of more than 6,000 employees.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020348","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=1020348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020359,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020348\/revisions\/1020359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}