Amazon India announced that it has created more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operations network, ahead of the festive season. These opportunities include direct and indirect jobs across India in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow and Chennai, among others. Majority of these new hires have joined Amazon’s existing network of associates and will support them to pick, pack, ship and deliver customer orders safely and efficiently. New hires also include Customer Service associates, some of whom are part of the Virtual Customer Service model that offers the flexibility to work from home.
These new job are in addition to the 8,000 job opportunities that Amazon recently announced during its first ever Career Day in India, earlier this month. The seasonal opportunities are yet another step forward in Amazon India’s commitment to create 1-million new job opportunities in the country by 2025.
The company has been working towards creating opportunities for underrepresented cohorts such as people with disabilities, women, military veterans and the LGBTQIA+ community. This year, the seasonal hiring has further strengthened its inclusive workforce by adding 50% more women, close to 60% more persons with disabilities and more than 100% increase in LGBTQAI+ representation, over last year. In 2021, Amazon India expanded its fulfilment and delivery network and now has more than 60 fulfilment centres across 15 States, Sort Centres in 19 States, more than 1700 Amazon owned and partner delivery stations, close to 28,000 ‘I Have Space’ partners and thousands of Amazon Flex delivery partners.
