{"id":1039281,"date":"2026-09-29T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039281"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:58:53","slug":"this-festive-season-indias-job-rush-is-arriving-sooner-spreading-farther-and-lasting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/this-festive-season-indias-job-rush-is-arriving-sooner-spreading-farther-and-lasting-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"This festive season, India&#8217;s job rush is arriving sooner, spreading farther and lasting longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s festive-season hiring is increasingly turning into a pipeline for longer-term jobs, with employers starting recruitment earlier and expanding hiring beyond major cities as e-commerce, organised retail and distribution networks deepen their reach, according to a report by Indeed. <\/p>\n<p>More than 74% of employers surveyed expect to retain at least 10% of their 2026 festive hires beyond the peak season through extensions, renewals or conversion into longer-term roles, PTI reported, citing the Indeed note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s festive-season hiring is increasingly turning into a pipeline for longer-term jobs, with employers starting recruitment earlier and expanding hiring beyond major cities as e-commerce, organised retail and distribution networks deepen their reach, according to a report by Indeed. More than 74% of employers surveyed expect to retain at least 10% of their 2026 festive hires beyond the peak season through extensions, renewals or conversion into longer-term roles, PTI reported, citing the Indeed note.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039281","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=1039281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039302,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039281\/revisions\/1039302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}