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In this episode of 100X Entrepreneur Podcast, Pravin Agarwala, Co-founder and CEO of blue-collar workforce management platform BetterPlace, talks about starting up, the five problem categories, and their solutions.
India’s warehousing boom creates winners in unexpected corners
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April 14, 2021
Every day, Shiv Kumar sets out to work on his new Hero Splendor from Patherheri village in Haryana’s Gurugram district toward Tauru Road a long stretch just off the National Highway 48. Over the last few years, the road surrounded by fields of wheat, jowar, bajra and mustard has slowly metamorphosed into a warehousing hub, thanks to the e-tailing boom.
Kumar saved up over the last three years to buy the bike. Savings entered his vocabulary after he started working with Mahindra Logistics Ltd, a third-party logistics (3PL) provider. He is a “picker”. He picks brown boxes from pallets stored inside the warehouse and loads them onto trucks for shipment. The job isn’t fancy, but it is a key position in the serpentine e-tail logistics chain. And it has changed Kumar’s life many times over.
Synopsis
Companies in ecommerce and logistics are reducing their fixed costs by not hiking salaries and, instead, giving out bigger performance-linked incentives, according to recruitment firms such as Betterplace, Waah Jobs, TeamLease and ManpowerGroup.
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The performance-linked model reduces risk in the event of an economic downturn. At the same time, workers can make more money when they perform well and when the company makes money.
Wages for blue-collar workers have largely stayed where they were last year, but employees are getting some respite now in the form of joining perks and more performance-linked pay.
Companies in ecommerce and logistics are reducing their fixed costs by not hiking salaries and, instead, giving out bigger performance-linked incentives, according to recruitment firms such as Betterplace, Waah Jobs,
founderINDIA announces second season of BusinessClass; to stream on Amazon FireTV ANI | Updated: Mar 03, 2021 17:57 IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI/Media Dekho): OTT-business news channel founderINDIA has announced the launch of the second season of its famous business chat show - BusinessClass. The award-winning chat show will be once again hosted by renowned educationist and mentor, Shantanu Prakash.
Prakash, in conversation with startup founders and subject matter experts, will give viewers an unscripted peep into the culture of startups, discuss the biggest challenges faced by them, and offer advice from his extensive experience along with some of India s most renowned investors.