With millions of people on the road every day, the scale of the instant delivery industry will continue to expand——
Approximately 30 million online delivery personnel will be needed in the next five years
In today's streets and alleys, the figure of the takeaway boy often walks through it, bringing convenience to thousands of households.
Not long ago, the takeaway brother officially became a new officially recognized occupation: online delivery service.
What is the professional status of this huge group?
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released an analysis report on the current employment situation of online delivery personnel, revealing more characteristics of this profession.
According to the report, online delivery personnel have a professional definition, which refers to the service personnel who receive and inspect customer orders through mobile Internet platforms, etc., according to order requirements, according to the platform's intelligent planning route, and deliver the order items to the designated location within a certain period of time .
The huge market demand has led to a rapid increase in the size of the employment group of online delivery agents, and the number of online delivery agents running on the road every day has reached one million.
"The'online dispatcher' has become a typical representative of the'new infrastructure' of modern urban life and the employment of new formats, which strongly supports the transformation of new and old momentum and the transformation and upgrading of the employment structure of the life service industry in the era of'digital economy'." The report points out. .
According to the survey results of the "Report on the Employment of Meituan Riders during the 2019 and 2020 Epidemics", in 2019, the total number of online delivery personnel who received income through the Meituan platform reached 3.987 million, a year-on-year increase of 23.3%.
Among the online delivery personnel employed on the Meituan platform, 257,000 are poor people who have established files and registered cards, accounting for 6.4% of the total number of online delivery personnel. Among them, 253,000 have been lifted out of poverty, and the poverty rate is as high as 98.4%. .
According to the survey data of the Meituan platform, this part of the practitioners present the following characteristics:
Looking at age, among all online dispatchers, the 20-40 age group accounts for more than 83.7%.
During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the number of new online delivery personnel in the 20-30 age group accounted for 45.3%, and the 30-40 age group accounted for 39.0%.
Looking at the working hours, nearly 60% of online delivery staff have less than 4 hours of delivery time per day. Flexible time is the most significant feature of online delivery staff.
"Flexible employment time is not only the most important reason why online delivery personnel work attracts practitioners, it is also in line with the characteristics of contemporary gig economy: more practitioners are no longer willing to be restricted by space and time, but tend to choose a more A flexible employment model to find a balance between life and work." The survey shows.
Looking at income, 30% of the net-delivery personnel earn more than 5,000 yuan a month, and 50% of the net-delivery personnel are the main source of household income.
Behind the rapid rise of occupations, the support of consumption and technology is indispensable.
According to a report from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, from the perspective of consumer market demand, China’s per capita GDP has exceeded US$10,000, and per capita disposable income has continued to increase. Expansion of consumption and consumption upgrades have shown a parallel development trend. Consumers’ online shopping types have become increasingly diversified. The timeliness of Sanyida can no longer meet the increasingly diversified life service needs. Catering, fresh food, medicines, etc. have obvious immediate attributes, so that they need to be quickly delivered to consumers.
At the same time, online dispatchers are also the product of mobile Internet technology innovation.
The instant delivery platform develops an intelligent scheduling system by using machine learning, operations research optimization, scheduling simulation and other technologies, which can track the direction and current location of the online delivery staff in real time, combine the real-time waybill situation, and distribute according to the most efficient method calculated by the system And optimize orders.
Take Meituan as an example. During peak hours, it needs to support 2.9 billion path planning algorithms per hour, with an average of 0.55 milliseconds planning a route.
In addition, we continue to develop smart electric vehicles, smart distribution boxes, and smart voice assistants.
The power of consumption and technology is also expected to bring broader prospects to the profession in the future.
"As the country continues to increase support for'Internet +', platform economy, etc., and continue to cultivate and expand new consumer formats, it is expected that the online rate of catering and retail will increase by 4-5 times in the future, driving the scale of the instant delivery industry to increase accordingly "The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security report pointed out that the demand for online delivery personnel is expected to be about 30 million in the next five years. The scale of instant delivery orders is growing rapidly, and the delivery labor gap will still exist for a long time. The market value of online delivery personnel will become more prominent.
Our reporter Li Jie