{"id":944816,"date":"2025-07-09T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944816"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:11:07","slug":"startups-are-cautiously-hiring-again-80000-new-tech-jobs-expected-in-fy26-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/startups-are-cautiously-hiring-again-80000-new-tech-jobs-expected-in-fy26-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups are cautiously hiring again; 80,000 new tech jobs expected in FY26, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the funding winter easing, hiring by Indian startups improved in financial year 2025, with 60,000 net new employee additions. This took the total startup workforce to 5.9 lakh at the end of the fiscal year, according to Xpheno data. <\/p>\n<p>In total, 1.6 lakh individuals were hired, accounting for both net growth and one lakh attrition-linked backfills. This is a healthy increase from the 1.2 lakh employees added in FY24, though it is yet to reach the 1.8 lakh additions observed in FY23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the funding winter easing, hiring by Indian startups improved in financial year 2025, with 60,000 net new employee additions. This took the total startup workforce to 5.9 lakh at the end of the fiscal year, according to Xpheno data. In total, 1.6 lakh individuals were hired, accounting for both net growth and one lakh attrition-linked backfills. This is a healthy increase from the 1.2 lakh employees added in FY24, though it is yet to reach the 1.8 lakh additions observed in FY23.<\/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-944816","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\/944816","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=944816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}