In a bid to overcome a shortage of delivery drivers, Amazon is asking its delivery partners to prominently advertise that they do not screen applicants for marijuana use.
The US is grappling with driver shortages across a number of industries, from commerce to transportation, and are promoting hiring incentives such as bonuses.
For Amazon’s local contractors, which operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon delivery vans, the delivery giant is now asking them to dangle another: no penalization for pot use.
Drivers will obviously not be allowed to drive while under the influence, but Amazon believe many have been put off applying because they fear a test will bring up prior use of the drug.
The company has told its partners that advertising the fact that they won’t test for marijuana can boost applicants by 400 percent, but did not say how it arrived at that number, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Amazon is now asking its delivery partners, which operate the company’s ubiquitous blue vans to prominently advertise in job posting that they do not screen for marijuana use in a bid to address driver shortages
Additionally, the company says that THC screening can cut prospective workers by as much as 30 percent.
Already, some of the ads are popping up.
Six days ago Portland, Oregon-based, Apcore Logistics placed an ad on the job posting site Linkedin for delivery drivers.
At the top of the listing it says in bold letters, ‘No THC Drug Testing.’
And on…
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In a bid to overcome a shortage of delivery drivers, Amazon is asking its delivery partners to prominently advertise that they do not screen applicants for marijuana use.
The US is grappling with driver shortages across a number of industries, from commerce to transportation, and are promoting hiring incentives such as bonuses.
For Amazon’s local contractors, which operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon delivery vans, the delivery giant is now asking them to dangle another: no penalization for pot use.
Drivers will obviously not be allowed to drive while under the influence, but Amazon believe many have been put off applying because they fear a test will bring up prior use of the drug.
The company has told its partners that advertising the fact that they won’t test for marijuana can boost applicants by 400 percent, but did not say how it arrived at that number, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Amazon is now asking its delivery partners, which operate the company’s ubiquitous blue vans to prominently advertise in job posting that they do not screen for marijuana use in a bid to address driver shortages
Additionally, the company says that THC screening can cut prospective workers by as much as 30 percent.
Already, some of the ads are popping up.
Six days ago Portland, Oregon-based, Apcore Logistics placed an ad on the job posting site Linkedin for delivery drivers.
At the top of the listing it says in bold letters, ‘No THC Drug Testing.’
And on…
