India’s leading e-commerce players are gearing up for the festive season by launching large-scale hiring drives and expanding their fulfillment networks. Both Amazon and Flipkart have rolled out massive seasonal recruitment campaigns while opening new fulfillment centers, sort centers, and delivery hubs across the country. This comes as shoppers prepare for mega events like Diwali, the Great Indian Festival, and Big Billion Days.
New Facilities Mean Faster Deliveries
Amazon has added 12 new fulfillment centers in key cities—Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Nagpur, Thane, Visakhapatnam, Hubballi, Hooghly, Hyderabad, Tiruvallur, and Krishnagiri—along with six new sort centers in Hubli, Trivandrum, Rajpura, Gorakhpur, Moradabad, and Prayagraj. Together, these expansions add a massive 8.6 million cubic feet of storage, equivalent to about 100 Olympic-size swimming pools. This ensures that products remain closer to customers, leading to faster delivery times.
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Flipkart is also strengthening its reach with new facilities in Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi, Agra, Ghaziabad), Bihar (Patna), Haryana (Manesar), and Tripura (Agartala). Its major additions include a 2 lakh sq ft fulfillment center in Varanasi (creating 3,600 jobs), a 4.5 lakh sq ft facility in Patna (adding 1,100+ jobs), and a 140-acre regional distribution center in Manesar (10,000 jobs). Additionally, Flipkart launched a grocery fulfillment center in Agartala that can process 5,000 orders daily.
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Broader Hiring Push—Over 3.7 Lakh Jobs Created
Together, Amazon and Flipkart have created over 3.7 lakh seasonal roles this year. Industry-wide, including other platforms like Myntra, total seasonal hiring has crossed 3.8 lakh jobs. Flipkart alone accounts for about 2.2 lakh jobs, while Amazon contributes around 1.5 lakh. Myntra has also joined the hiring spree, adding 11,000 seasonal roles in logistics, customer service, and last-mile delivery.
Inclusivity at the Core of Hiring
Both companies are focusing on inclusive hiring. Amazon has employed thousands of women associates and over 2,000 persons with disabilities (PWDs) in roles such as fulfillment associates, sortation operators, team leads, and process assistants. Flipkart, through its Supply Chain Operations Academy (SCOA), has trained and hired many women, PWDs, and first-time workers. It has also launched “Suraksha” wellness camps for 6,000 warehouse employees across 21 facilities, providing health assessments and doctor consultations. Myntra, on its part, reports that nearly 30% of its new hires are women.
Gig Hiring Hits a Three-Year High
The 2025 festive season marks the highest gig and seasonal hiring in three years. Amazon, Flipkart, and other players are expanding their temporary workforce to meet surging demand. Hiring has also shifted to Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities, with places like Jaipur, Coimbatore, Indore, and Nagpur becoming major employment hubs.
Quess Staffing Solutions expects festive hiring to rise 20–25% compared to last year, noting a 53% spike in demand between July and August. TeamLease adds that although growth rates have slowed, the overall number of jobs continues to increase steadily.
Who’s in Demand?
Delivery personnel make up nearly 40% of festive hiring, followed by warehouse workers (20%), customer support executives (15%), retail floor staff (10%), and field technicians (8%). Salaries remain attractive—delivery agents can earn between ₹22,000–₹32,000 per month, warehouse staff between ₹17,000–₹23,000, and retail floor workers between ₹21,000–₹27,000.
