We lost 80% workforce within two days of lockdown, bounced back resiliently: Big Basket CEO

COIMBATORE: ‘Big Basket’ lost 80% of its workforce within two days of the nationwide lockdown in March, but bounced back with “sheer resilience” of its team and hired more than 12,000 people in 16 days to turn around the fortunes of the company, its CEO Hari Menon said on Saturday.

“After losing 80% of the workforce for two days, we were really dumbstruck as orders poured in…we hired 12,300 people in 16 days- through this we demonstrated the power of resilience,” he said.