Flipkart to create 1 lakh seasonal jobs ahead of festive season

NEW DELHI: With the festive season around the corner, e-commerce companies are firming up seasonal hiring plans as they gear up to tackle a surge in consumer demand and service delivery of orders. Flipkart on Monday said that it will create over 1,00,000 new seasonal job opportunities across its supply chain including fulfillment centres, sortation centres and delivery hubs in the run up to The Big Billion Days (TBBD), its annual festive sale event.

Amid a flurry of deals and discounts offered by e-tailers during the festive sales, consumers across the country take to online shopping. Major e-commerce players like Amazon and Flipkart hold festive sales in phases. The first leg of the sale which typically happens closer to the onset of Navaratri drives the bulk of the festive purchases. To give some perspective, last year, e-commerce companies clocked sales worth Rs 40,000 crore during the first phase of the festive sales, estimates by RedSeer Consulting showed.