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Instacart ready to increase its workforce and adding 'wellness checks' for its shoppers to Instacart app

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Instacart,  a grocery delivery platform announced that they are ready to increase their workforce by adding up-to 250,000 new workers.

Instacart increasing their workforce because in COVID-19 pandemic introduces a huge demand of delivery of groceries in community. Exactly a month ago Instacart announced to add up-to 300,000 new shoppers to fulfill that huge demand. In such a pandemic, Wallmart said it would hire 150,000 new workers and Amazon said it would hire 100,000 new workers.

Instacart extending the sick pay periods for shoppers with COVID-19 as well as they are going to add 'wellness checks' to their app for shoppers to stay safe from such a pandemic.

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According to Instacart they are giving its own hand sanitizer with the 'safety kits' that can be ordered on their Instacart shoppers app, rather than the website that shoppers are using. But according to shoppers they are not receiving the 'safety kits'. Shoppers said that the company announced that shoppers will receive these 'safety kits' till 2nd April but they are still waiting for the 'safety kits'.

The company says that they are verifying that the 'safety kits' should be deliver to only active shoppers, and says that shoppers have started receiving their kits over the past week.

According to The Verge "Last month, Instacart shoppers, who are largely contract gig workers not eligible for benefits, said they would refuse new orders because they did not think the company had done enough to protect them during the COVID-19 outbreak. The shoppers wanted Instacart to provide protective gear such as hand sanitizer, add a $5-per-order hazard payment, and expand its sick leave policy. Instacart made its own hand sanitizer and announced any shopper could order it directly from the company. But shoppers said they were concerned for their health and that Instacart’s measures weren’t going far enough."

Reference:- The Verge
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