ShiftPixy Launches MIAMI WORKS to Restore Miami’s Restaurant & Hospitality Industries by Connecting Businesses with On-Dema...
June 23 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Miami-based staffing leader launches a
recruiting campaign, working alongside local community groups and
universities to host its first recruiting event on June 26 to
connect the workforce with understaffed businesses
ShiftPixy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIXY), a Florida-based national
staffing enterprise that designs, manages, and sells access to a
disruptive, revolutionary platform, today announced the launch of
MIAMI WORKS, a staffing and recruiting campaign designed to help
the restaurant and hospitality industry navigate the staffing
shortage induced by the pandemic. In collaboration with local
universities and community development groups, ShiftPixy will host
the first in a series of recruiting events this Saturday, June 26,
2021, to help shift workers easily find job opportunities that
offer living wages, a sign-up bonus, and flexible schedules, as
well as healthcare, workers’ compensation and 401K benefits.
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Following the global pandemic, South Florida is facing a severe
staffing shortage, a major challenge for the city that thrives on
hospitality and tourism business. MIAMI WORKS will help businesses
more easily connect with and onboard willing and eligible workers
to get their operations back on track, and effectively meet
customer demand. Following the inaugural event, ShiftPixy will
commence a 60-day marketing effort to connect the registered
workforce to open positions in the Miami area across restaurants
and other hospitality operators.
On top of the labor shortage impacting the restaurant and
hospitality industry, third-party delivery services are facing a
threat from some authorities of being forced to reclassify drivers
from independent contractors to employees, putting their business
model and the restaurants they serve at risk. ShiftPixy can provide
a stable platform that offers fair wages and benefits for these
delivery workers, and allow restaurants to reduce their reliance on
third-party services by ramping up their own recruiting and
staffing efforts in order to meet pent up demand as COVID-19
restrictions ease up.
“The pandemic deeply wounded Miami’s lush and vibrant
hospitality industry, so we were inspired to develop an actionable
campaign with the best cohort of local groups to help restore that
vitality – and fast,” said ShiftPixy CEO and Founder, Scott Absher.
“MIAMI Works is designed to benefit both hospitality operators as
well as the workforce at a time both are desperately in need of a
means to recover and grow.”
Local restaurant and hospitality operators in the communities
ShiftPixy serves will be represented at the job fair, where they
will be directly connected with the on-demand workforce, with the
ability to complete onboarding quickly and efficiently in a
paperless fashion. Leading up to and following the event, ShiftPixy
will continue connecting qualified workers with businesses through
“scan to apply” QR codes on posters and other advertising located
across Miami.
“We’re excited to be working with ShiftPixy and our local
colleges and universities to address the latest labor challenges in
the wake of COVID-19, and show our continued support of the local
restaurant and hospitality industries,” said City of Miami
Commissioner and Chairman of the Miami DDA Manolo Reyes. “Through
the upcoming job fair, and other efforts to connect workers with
businesses in these sectors, we’re helping our businesses solve
their current staffing issues by promoting the economic, social and
cultural health of downtown Miami, and leading the city through its
post-pandemic recovery.”
“We’re thrilled to collaborate with ShiftPixy and Miami DDA to
create a new avenue for shift workers to effectively identify
opportunities at such an important time for the hospitality
industry,” said Beatriz Gonzalez of Miami Dade College. “MIAMI
Works and ShiftPixy are aligned with our mission to support the
Miami community, and we encourage participation in ShiftPixy’s
upcoming job fair at MDC’s Wolfson Campus.”
In addition to collaborating with Miami DDA, MIAMI WORKS is the
embodiment of the local efforts ShiftPixy has made alongside FIU
Chaplin School of Hospitality, the company’s Ghost Kitchen
Incubator program, FIU Embrace, and others to invigorate the Miami
hospitality industry by starting with the most important component
– the workforce.
For more information about ShiftPixy’s MIAMI WORKS campaign and
job fair, please visit https://shiftpixy.com/miamiworks/.
About ShiftPixy
ShiftPixy (PIXY) provides a disruptive human capital management
platform, revolutionizing employment in the Gig Economy by
delivering a next-gen mobile engagement technology to help
businesses with shift-based employees navigate regulatory mandates,
minimize administrative burdens and better connect with a
ready-for-hire workforce. With expertise rooted in management’s
nearly 25 years of workers’ compensation and compliance programs
experience, ShiftPixy adds a needed layer for addressing compliance
and continued demands for equitable employment practices in the
growing Gig Economy.
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