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Get Shift Done connects hospitality workers who need a paycheck with food banks that need a helping hand.
Jain was chair of the North Texas Food Bank last year as the pandemic and shut down orders gripped the region.
Restaurants closed; workers laid off. Food pantries in demand. Volunteers unavailable.
In these desperate moments of the pandemic, an idea was at work. Food banks needed people, and hospitality workers who knew food needed work. We set up the nonprofit in 72 hours. It was kinda crazy, right?, Jain smiled.
As the then-chair of NTFB, Jain knew well it takes 32,000 volunteers to help get 90 million meals to the communities the nonprofit serves. Jain posed the problem to friend Patrick Brandt cofounded a labor management company called Shiftsmart. It connects companies with skilled workers who are able to sign up for shifts at multiple employers.
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Startup Shiftsmart Grew Users By 300% By Connecting Hourly Workers With Unfilled Shifts During The Pandemic
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Shiftsmart president Patrick Brandt (left) and CEO Aakash Kumar (right) cofounded the labor management platform in 2015 with CTO Pavan Patel.
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Within days of the pandemic-related economic shutdown last March, Patrick Brandt, cofounder and president of workforce marketplace Shiftsmart, noticed a significant portion of his users in the hospitality industry were suddenly unemployed. He got to work on a plan.
Shiftsmart, which he cofounded in 2015 with CEO Aakash Kumar and CTO Pavan Patel, enables those who work hourly jobs in settings such as call centers and warehousing to seamlessly sign up for open shifts at multiple employers. Brandt used the platform to help his out-of-work users sign up for shifts at in-demand food banks, raising private money to pay their wages.
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