Greener pastures for all

• Remember a time before on-demand food delivery was available? Neither do we. Apart from serving convenience to consumers, platforms such as 500-backed superapp Grab fuel the gig economy.
• This was apparent when the pandemic hit, with urban mobility in the Philippines falling to 26% of the pre-lockdown level. With Filipinos quickly going online for essentials, this surge in demand allowed Grab to offer income opportunities to thousands of Filipino delivery-partners.
• Entrepreneurs of micro, small, and medium businesses turned to on-demand delivery services as a lifeline.
• One example: Thai Mango operated under the GrabKitchen central kitchen model to keep operating costs low. Today, 60% of their sales continue to be driven by the Grab platform.
• To better understand the impact Grab has had on Filipinos, Grab conducted a survey among 1,200 GrabFood delivery-partners. They found that the platform’s gig opportunities offered positive experiences, particularly because of flexible working hours, competitive earnings, and independent working conditions.
• The average driver earns US$100 per week more than the transportation industry mean. The average daily income of GrabFood delivery drivers was found to be approximately double the country’s minimum wage.
• Grab also offers a safety net by providing accident and life insurance, medicine allowance, hospital assistance, amongst others.
• All this is aligned with Grab’s mission of creating flexible earning opportunities for thousands of Filipinos.
• Read the full story here.