After the goods and services tax (GST) and demonetisation, e-commerce has seen the highest shift from the informal to the formal sector with the highest growth in flexi-staffing jobs between 2015 and 2018.
According to the latest report on the flexi staffing industry by Indian Staffing Federation (ISF), the share of formal flexi-jobs in the e-commerce sector has grown from 77 per cent in 2015 to 91 per cent in 2018.
Reforms like the GST and demonetisation have led to the maximum informal to formal shift across sectors in 2015-18 with e-commerce growing most at 14 per cent, followed by manufacturing at