More new jobs as online retailers go hiring ahead of festive sale

• Amazon to add new infrastructure and ‘thousands’ of jobs across India. Hundred thousand more jobs in the US
• Flipcart to add 70,000 direct jobs & 100,000 part time India

Bengaluru:  Online retailers in India are hiring in big numbers ahead of the festive season starting early October in India. 

Both Amazon and Flipcart announced that they are ramping up their facilities, recruiting more staff, and preparing for a busy season ahead, despite the Covid-19 pandemic.

The opening of two new Amazon fulfillment centres in Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Telengana would result in thousands of new jobs, the company said.

The new addition will increase its storage capacity to more than 4.5 million cubic feet spread across four fulfillment centres in Telengana. 

Recently, Amazon announced that in an effort to strengthen the delivery speed, it is expanding the Sort Centres with five new ones, in Vishakhapatnam, Farukhnagar, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

It also announced that is also expanding eight existing Sort Centres to increase the overall sortation area to 2.2 million square feet, across 19 states. Amazon uses technology and automation in its sortation network. 

Flipkart meanwhile has announced that it plans to create about 70,000 new jobs (direct) and hundreds of thousands of seasonal jobs as it prepares for an increase in online shopping ahead of the festive season.

Flipcart runs its Big Billion Days sale and “its complexity and scale require investments for capacity, storage, sorting, packaging, human resources, training, and delivery,” it said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Amazon on Monday (Sept 14) announced that it plans to hire 100,000 new, regular full- and part-time jobs in the United States as it expands its operations.

A recent report by Unicommerce – a SaaS platform geared at eCommerce clients, online sales and business for e-commerce platforms has increased by about 130 per cent compared to the same period last year.