{"id":991612,"date":"2026-02-12T09:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991612"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:29:56","slug":"quick-commerce-hiring-moderates-in-jan-2026-focus-shifts-from-hyper-expansion-to-profitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/quick-commerce-hiring-moderates-in-jan-2026-focus-shifts-from-hyper-expansion-to-profitability\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick-commerce hiring moderates in Jan 2026; focus shifts from hyper-expansion to profitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The white-collar hiring in the quick commerce segment grew 21% in January 2026 as the ultra-fast, hyperlocal delivery model has entered a second phase of maturity, said the latest Indeed report. Even though the yearly hiring growth was robust, the overall white-collar hiring in q-comm is showing signs of moderating with just 14% growth over six months and 4% over three months. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHiring remained positive but became increasingly deliberate, aligned to unit economics and operational efficiency rather than rapid footprint growth. This signals a shift from hyper-expansion to controlled, sustainable scaling,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The white-collar hiring in the quick commerce segment grew 21% in January 2026 as the ultra-fast, hyperlocal delivery model has entered a second phase of maturity, said the latest Indeed report. Even though the yearly hiring growth was robust, the overall white-collar hiring in q-comm is showing signs of moderating with just 14% growth over six months and 4% over three months. \u201cHiring remained positive but became increasingly deliberate, aligned to unit economics and operational efficiency rather than rapid footprint growth. This signals a shift from hyper-expansion to controlled, sustainable scaling,\u201d the report said.<\/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-991612","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\/991612","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=991612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}