Urban Company to onboard over 20,000 service professionals in 2021 PTI New Delhi | Updated on March 14, 2021 Varun Khaitan, Co-founder, Urban Company× Home services marketplace Urban Company on Sunday said it aims to onboard over 20,000 professionals on its platform this year to meet the strong growth in demand for various services post the lockdown. Currently, the company has more than 40,000 gig workers on its platform, of which over 35,000 are present in India. Of the total base of gig workers on the platform in India, more than one-third are women working as beauticians and massage therapists, Urban Company co-founder Varun Khaitan said. "We have accelerated our pace of onboarding more service professionals in line with our 2021 business growth plan. We plan to onboard more than 50 per cent gig workers on our platform in line with our 2021 strategy," he added.