This festive season, Flipkart hopes to create over 4,000 employment through Flipkart Xtra.
Flipkart announced the introduction of Flipkart Xtra, a service marketplace aiming at providing part-time income opportunities for individuals, service agencies, and technicians, on September 22. Initially, the marketplace would only allow people to join as delivery executives, but it hopes to expand to allow service agencies and technically capable persons to join as service partners and technicians in the future. Flipkart Xtra goes live just in time for the festive season and Flipkart’s Big Billion Days 2021.
Individuals can find a part-time job by downloading the Flipkart Xtra app from Google Play on their Android devices, as part of the Walmart-owned company’s latest initiative. It will request that they give their personal information as well as ID proof for background checks. The app will onboard the user to the selected role once the user has been validated successfully.
Flipkart Xtra is now only open to delivery executives, but Flipkart aims to open it up to service partners and technicians in the coming months. This holiday season, the e-commerce company hopes to create over 4,000 employment through the programme.
Flipkart will be able to address its last-mile reachability issues in India by expanding its Flipkart Xtra marketplace to include part-time delivery partners. The timing of the offering’s launch is also noteworthy since the firm is ready to launch the much-anticipated Flipkart Big Billion Days 2021 sale, which will begin on October 7.
In a prepared statement, Hemant Badri, Senior Vice-President and Head of Supply Chain at Flipkart, said of the launch of Flipkart Xtra, “This is a new disruption in the gig economy space and will help individuals find an alternate source of income while contributing to the country’s economic recovery.”
In addition to Flipkart Xtra, Flipkart has its Kirana Delivery programme, which allows local retailers to have orders delivered to them. During last year’s holiday season, the corporation claimed that the programme assisted in the fulfilment of a whopping 10 million shipments.
Flipkart Xtra and Amazon Flex are two programmes aimed at increasing e-commerce shipments in the country. They may, however, make the situation more competitive and difficult for traditional delivery executives who conduct online deliveries in the long run, since part-timers would be able to provide similar services at lower labour rates.
Amazon’s Amazon Flex delivery programme, similar to Flipkart’s, is accessible in several cities across India and allows the corporation to hire part-time delivery executives. The US firm pays between Rs. 120 and Rs. 140 per hour and requires a two-wheeler to transport packages in their service zones
There is no obligation to own a vehicle or bike to participate in Flipkart Xtra. The corporation did not specify how much a person would receive after being hired as a part-time delivery executive. It did, however, clarify that payments will be made every week, based on the amount due for each delivery shipment.
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