Over One Lakh Seasonal Jobs Created by Amazon India Just Ahead of the Festival Season

Nitin Konde, Apoorva Bajj

Sep 16, 2024 — 3 min read

Over One Lakh Seasonal Jobs Created by Amazon India Just Ahead of the Festival Season

To meet the heightened demand that occurs throughout the holiday season, Amazon India announced on 12 September 2024 that it has established more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operational network. According to a statement released by the corporation, these opportunities include both direct and indirect employment prospects across the country, especially in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Chennai etc.

A total of over 1.1 lakh new employees have been brought on board by the company to enhance its fulfillment and logistics network and to guarantee that it will be able to meet the increasing demand without any problems. While talking with the media, Abhinav Singh, Vice President of Operations at Amazon India, revealed that a lot of these fellow workers will continue to work for Amazon even after the holiday season is over, and many others return to work for Amazon year after year. According to the statement, the vast majority of these newly hired employees have already been brought on board.

Empowering Women and Special People

Amazon also claimed that it has engaged thousands of women to work as associates and also it has hired close to 1900 disabled people to work inside its existing network. In a statement, the Union Minister of Labour and Employment and Youth Affairs and Sports, Mansukh Mandaviya, expressed his admiration for the efforts that Amazon and other corporations are making to create employment possibilities that are inclusive while also ensuring the welfare of their employees.

"It is heartening to see that the company is prioritising the well-being of its employees by implementing programmes that give priority to their safety, healthcare, and educational support," stated Mandaviya.

"Additionally, it is great to note that the company is hiring a considerable number of women and people with disabilities for these positions," he added further.

Amazon India Focuses on Associate Wellbeing

Amazon India has instituted a variety of initiatives to support the well-being of its associates, including the recently launched Project Ashray, which provides dedicated resting points for delivery associates in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, and Bengaluru.

Moreover, Amazon has specific welfare programmes such as Sushruta, which provides truck drivers with comprehensive healthcare support through early detection, diagnosis, and health camps across key regions, and the Pratidhi Scholarship, which offers scholarships to associates' children for quality education, amongst other initiatives of a similar nature.

Network of Amazon India

Amazon India has established a robust fulfilment and shipping network that spans the whole country, which is assisting more than 1.4 million merchants in meeting the needs of customers located all across the country.

The company has fulfilment centres located in fifteen different states, which provide 43 million cubic feet of storage space for seller inventory. Additionally, the company has sortation centres located in nineteen different states, and it has a network of nearly two thousand delivery stations that are operated by Amazon and partner companies.