DoorDash asks every employee, from engineers to executives, to deliver food

The New Year’s on-demand food delivery company is reviving a program called WeDash that was halted during the pandemic.

DoorDash launched WeDash in 2013, when it started operating. The founders said they wanted to get the company involved in philanthropic and community efforts in the first place.

“As the company grew, the founders wanted people to experience different parts of the product so we could get closer to all of our audiences and understand how the product worked,” the spokesperson said. of DoorDash emailed CNNBusiness on Tuesday. Any money an employee earns from participating is donated to the nonprofit.

“By participating as a Dasher, supporting a merchant, or supporting a customer experience agent, employees will learn first-hand how the technology products we build,” the company said. Construction will empower local economies, which in turn helps us build a better product.”

The program, open to all nondelivery employees including engineers and senior executives, will return in January and already has an expected number of participants in the know.

According to a media report, a disgruntled DoorDash engineer recently posted a lengthy notice on the anonymous social networking platform Blind about monthly deliveries that weren’t in their job description when they posted it. Sign up for DoorDash.

DoorDash’s response: “Employee affection for Blind is not a reflection of employees as a whole. This is a valuable program we’ve had since the company’s founding.”

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