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That could be construed as Instacart assigning orders to their shoppers which would likely make them employees eligible for benefits, something they want to avo
by mnm1 6y ago
That could be construed as Instacart assigning orders to their shoppers which would likely make them employees eligible for benefits, something they want to avoid at all costs. This may already be the case in CA regardless of what they do, but they definitely want to avoid paying any benefits for their workers in any state where this is not yet currently the case.
- chefandy 6y agoDefinitely this. They don't care who gets the orders as long as they're gotten, and assigning the work to people rather than letting people pick from a pool makes them look more like an employer/dispatcher rather than a broker.
- slfnflctd 6y ago> construed as Instacart assigning orders to their shoppers Uber & Lyft assign rides to drivers. [You can still cancel them after they ping you, but it's discouraged.] It seems to me like it works extremely well overall compared to what Instacart is doing.