Chandigarh, Sep 9 (IANS): Frontizo Business Services, a joint venture between the Patni Group and Amazon Asia Pacific, on Monday announced to employ 1,000 people for its new centre in Panchkula near here in Haryana, the second and largest centre in India.
The company aims to enroll 350 employees by Diwali and then ramped up close to 1,000 employees by March 2020.
The hiring would happen from Hindi-speaking regions around the centre, Apoorva Patni of the Patni Group said.
Frontizo will be servicing Amazon's customers in Hindi from the Panchkula site, enabling Amazon to service Hindi-speaking customers who constitute a sizeable number of their customer base in India.
Close to 40 per cent of those hired would comprise of women, the company said in a statement.
Vinod Kumar, MD and CEO with Frontizo Business Services, said this centre is a unique opportunity to help important areas of job creation and skill building.