Ecom Express to create 30,000 temporary jobs ahead of festive sales

E-commerce firms see a large chunk of their business coming in during festive sales and they make significant investments ahead of time to ramp up capacity

Logistics solutions provider Ecom Express is planning to create 30,000 seasonal roles across operations, over the next few weeks, as it gears up to cater to heightened demand from e-commerce clients during the festive season.

The company, which had a workforce of about 23,000 in pre-Covid times, has hired 7,500 people in the last few months to address the increase in online orders during and after the lockdown, with people turning to e-commerce to order grocery, medicines, and other items.

“The pandemic has catapulted the e-commerce industry to a different league. Our e-commerce customers have very aggressive plans for the festive season