{"id":1040545,"date":"2026-10-03T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040545"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:08:45","slug":"festive-hiring-gathers-pace-as-e-commerce-quick-commerce-firms-expand-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/festive-hiring-gathers-pace-as-e-commerce-quick-commerce-firms-expand-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive hiring gathers pace as e-commerce, quick-commerce firms expand workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.5 lakh temporary and gig jobs are expected to be created this festive season as e-commerce, quick-commerce and logistics companies expand hiring to handle higher order volumes, with nearly 45% of workforce demand coming from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. <\/p>\n<p>The estimate comes as companies increase their fulfilment, sorting and last-mile capacity ahead of the festive shopping period. Logistics and last-mile delivery hiring is expected to rise by around 30-35% as companies prepare for higher order volumes, longer sale periods and faster fulfilment, according to Deepesh Gupta, Director and Head of General Staffing at Adecco India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 2.5 lakh temporary and gig jobs are expected to be created this festive season as e-commerce, quick-commerce and logistics companies expand hiring to handle higher order volumes, with nearly 45% of workforce demand coming from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. The estimate comes as companies increase their fulfilment, sorting and last-mile capacity ahead of the festive shopping period. Logistics and last-mile delivery hiring is expected to rise by around 30-35% as companies prepare for higher order volumes, longer sale periods and faster fulfilment, according to Deepesh Gupta, Director and Head of General Staffing at Adecco India.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040545","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=1040545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040553,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040545\/revisions\/1040553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}