E-commerce company Flipkart exacts to hire over 10,000 temporary staff to ramp up its transportation and logistics service in order to meet the festive demand.
The movement comes as part of the arrangements being made by e-commerce firms as they launch offers to boost deals during the upcoming festive season.
“With the festive season coming in, we are confident that Big Billion Days (sale) will be bigger and better than before this year.
“In addition to having the new capability of the alternate delivery model, we are looking at hiring more than 10,000 temporary staff in logistics and the last mile across the country,” Flipkart chief administrative officer Nitin Seth said.
Flipkart’s rival Snapdeal also expects the formulation of 10,000 temporary jobs at the firm between September 15 to November 15, with the positions essentially in logistics to assure constant deliveries.
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Asked about the records of the company laying off 800 people, Seth answered in the negative.
“We completely and unequivocally deny any layoffs at Flipkart in the coming months… This is completely false and baseless. There are no plans for layoffs in any team in the coming months,” he added.
He added that the company’s recruitment policies are in line with its business goals and that it proceeds to hire talents in primary strategic areas.
In July, Flipkart had dismissed some of its “under-performing” employees. While the company had refused to clarify on the number of layoffs, sources had said the number ran as high as 1,000.