Ep 175: An Post CEO David McRedmond on decent work

Oct 20, 2019

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