By Admin 
Zomato: Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO of Zomato’s parent company Eternal, has said that the company’s food delivery unit (Zomato) fires about 5000 gig workers every month. He revealed this while talking in the podcast of YouTuber Raj Shamani.
Lakhs of gig workers leave their jobs on their own
He also said that apart from being fired from the job, about 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh gig workers leave the job on their own every month. Apart from this, the company hired around 1.5-2 lakh new people every month. Till the last quarter, food delivery was Eternal’s biggest business. Then it was overtaken by its quick commerce unit Blinkit.
However, Gurugram based Zomato is still the biggest profit earning engine for the company, Apart from Zomato and Blinkit, Eternal District also runs an outgoing business on labels and a business-to-business (B2B) grocery supply vertical Hyperpure,
Reason for mass layoffs
Regarding people leaving the job of delivery boy on a large scale, Deepinder said, many people consider this role to be temporary. Some people choose this work in case of sudden need of money and then leave the job after earning money as per need.
Talking about large-scale retrenchment of people from jobs, Deepinder said that many times there are fraud related incidents behind this, such as delivery partners showing the food as delivered even when it was not delivered or cases where customers were promised change for cash-on-delivery orders, but they never received it.
Facilities for gig workers
He also wrote on the facilities provided to gig workers, the demand for PF or guaranteed salary for gig workers like full-time employees is not right according to the model for which it has been created. This is because there is no fixed shift for delivery partners. They are not assigned any fixed location for work. They themselves decide when to log-in and log-out. Or they have to deliver to some place in the city. They choose their own location. They have the freedom to add or remove locations for work as per their choice.
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