Case Study: Farmstead Achieves 10x Warehouse Staffing Scale with Instawork

Growing Warehouse Operations 10x Overnight Using Instawork

Farmstead, a grocery delivery service based in San Francisco, faced a sudden 10x surge in orders when COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates took effect. To keep up, the company needed to rapidly expand its warehouse workforce without lowering its hiring standards, and turned to Instawork and its flexible staffing platform to help meet demand.

Instawork worked with Farmstead to provide vetted warehouse workers, on-demand shift booking, a feedback rating system, recurring worker scheduling, and live support to reduce no-shows. In the first month, Instawork delivered 460+ shifts with 100+ workers, achieved a 100% worker fill rate and a 0.44% no-show rate, and helped Farmstead make four full-time hires within a month through a temp-to-hire pipeline.

Farmstead

Kevin Li

Co-Founder