ShipIt Shifted Logistics Pickup Staff From Full-Time Employees to Contractors
Alan Giloff · eCommerce SaaS hits $13m 2021 GMV, How He's Hedged Chile Interest Rates, Macroeconomic Headwinds · Aug 24, 2023 · at 2:54
Alan Giloff is the co-founder of ShipIt, an e-commerce logistics platform based in Chile. He describes the company's operational workforce model for package pickups.
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“At the beginning, there were like full-time employees for us, but then we had them change to a, like, company contractors, right?”
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