An Post CEO David McRedmond is my special guest this week, talking about the postal workforce:
- How sustainability relates to the concept of decent work
- What offering decent work means for the workforce and for customers
- The connection between the post and the community
- The flexibility of other work engagement models (such as the gig economy)
- The pressure and innovation springing from e-commerce
- The downsides of the gig economy on workers and society
- The value of postal employees
Then Dean Maciuba, Director Consulting Services at Logistics Trends & Insights joins me to discuss smaller warehouses located closer to population centres:
- Fulfilment centre location and speed of delivery
- If costs per square metre increase, will e-commerce delivery costs go up?
- Restocking fulfilment centres - the "middle mile"
- Will last mile costs be less if fulfilment centres are closer to the consumer?
- Size of the vehicle and implications for last mile costs
- Congestion, emissions, and noise
- Locations for urban fulfilment centres
- Growth in industrial rents - and the factors behind this growth
