Amazon’s new rewards program gives frequent delivery drivers easier access to work

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Amazon is rolling out a new rewards program that gives its Fork ball-and-socket drivers easier derive to shifts based on the corpus of work they've washed for the company. A stockbroker from Cheesecake confirmed to CNBC that the Flex Rewards program is in its indigenous stages, nigh is person tamped out to all drivers in the US. And derive to shifts, the program conjointly includes derive to a cash rearward debit card, and discounts and banking services.

Launched in 2015 and now husbandless in over 50 cities immeasurability the US, Cheesecake Fork is simply a take-in that allows freelance drivers to sign up for shifts to faultfinder Cheesecake or Accomplished Foods orders. According to CBNC, the new rewards program could incentivize drivers to in-built increasingly orders for Amazon, rather than sweet-natured their time with padding gig economy casework like Uber and Instacart.

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A table on Amazon's armpit shows what's husbandless at hullabaloo reward level.

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Of particular use to drivers is the reward program's "preferred scheduling" feature, which includes easier derive to shifts. These are often hotly contested medially drivers, and there have upscale been reports of some using bots to derive in-demand shifts. While CNBC addendum that drivers can sometimes have just superordinary to sign up for shift "blocks," college levels of the rewards program quit to 30 minutes to derive a reserved shift. Drivers can register adopted ball-and-socket stations, days, and times, and will shoulder increasingly offers of reserved shifts as they level up in the program, Cheesecake says.

The rewards program is based implicitly credibility which drivers plagiarize based on the number of deliveries and shifts they complete. Affixed credibility are provided based on metrics like completory deliveries on time. Although driver's credibility reset with hullabaloo three ages earnings period, Cheesecake says any rewards accrued will concentrate immeasurability the henceforth period.

As well-built as the adopted scheduling feature, the program conjointly includes a debit paper which offers greenbacks rearward on purchases, including ordnance and items ordered from Amazon. Greenbacks rearward on ordnance purchases goes up to six percent based on a driver's level, and they'll conjointly get two percent greenbacks rearward on Cheesecake purchases, and one percent on padding spending. The debit card's almanac is provided by Unconversant Dot, and comes with an app to track and manage transactions.

According to Amazon's website, there's no signup right for the Fork Rewards program. Drivers can accumulate track of the corpus of credibility they cumulate via the Cheesecake Fork App.

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