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Solution Spotlight: Featuring Instawork
Retailers are facing unprecedented workforce challenges—high turnover rates, labor shortages, and fluctuating seasonal demands. Traditional staffing solutions are often too slow and rigid to keep up.
Instawork is changing the game by providing on-demand, tech-enabled workforce solutions that connect retailers with skilled, vetted professionals in hours, not weeks.
Watch as Ken Drish, a business development executive at Instawork, breaks down how the company is revolutionizing workforce management through AI-driven staffing, flexible labor models, and strategic industry partnerships.
About Instawork
Founded in 2016, Instawork started in the hospitality sector before expanding into retail, light industrial, and logistics. Today, it provides on-demand workforce solutions to retailers, brands, and agencies through a nationwide network of 7 million professionals.
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