Quess Corp to work with government to bring migrant workers back to industries
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Quess is among India’s largest private sector employers with over 3.8 lakh people on its rolls, who are deployed across e-commerce, facility management, healthcare, retail, IT services and other industry sectors.
The company said it was hopeful of an employment revival in some sectors such as retail and e-commerce.
“We are hoping that the government will actually help us get migrant workers back into the city in an organised fashion. We are in conversations with some folks in government to see how we can also help create that supply-demand linkage with some of our technology platforms,” Suraj Moraje, group chief executive officer of Quess told ET.
India’s factories and construction companies are facing a shortage of workers after migrant labourers returned to their home states such as Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand after a nationwide lockdown came into effect from March 25. The government began its “Unlock 1.0” of most economic activity from Monday.
Moraje said some industry sectors were still under stress and that the staffing industry was waiting for demand to revive.
Apart from daily-wage workers, gig workers were also badly hit by the pandemic-led slowdown and the government should bring them under a social security scheme, he added.
“By and large, across our workforce we have not seen a kind of mass movement, our suspicion is that the segment hit hard are the daily wagers because their life fell apart. I think many of the gig workers have been hit really hard and truly hope the government brings in some kind of rule for their social security,” he said.
Quess also offers staffing services for IT companies and has its own technology infrastructure management business.
The IT sector continues to maintain jobs and has not been impacted by the slowdown so far, Moraje said, despite an overall decline in job creation across industry sectors.
“Pockets where customers have been under stress, pockets where customers see demand, it is still range-bound,” said Moraje. “We are hopeful that the worst for the economy is over by June. But there are some firms for whom the worst is not yet over.”
The company saw a 5% drop in headcount between February and April, and expects further reduction at the same pace in May and June.
“We have not started hiring yet, the unlocking is still taking place. We are a big believer in our sourcing ability… there will be upside of increased demand in delivery and some format of retail stores. Extended hours in retail mean we need part time workers. (But) there will be a downside in some customers’ business,” said Moraje.
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