Leading Food Distribution Company

Leading food distribution company streamlines compliant hiring with Lifted, an Upwork Company™, reducing onboarding by 3 weeks and accelerating delivery by 25%

Aug 19, 2025

In short about the Impact

Reduced onboarding time by up to 3 weeks.

25% faster project delivery through improved start-time readiness.

100% on-time contract renewals for re-engaged talent.

Centralized compliance visibility across 12 U.S. regions and 3 global markets.

The challenges we’ve tackled

Fragmented Compliance Practices

Lack of a centralized method for tracking hiring activity across U.S. regions and global teams.

Delayed Project Start Times

Inefficient onboarding processes created costly lags of up to three weeks.

Limited Reporting Access

Without detailed reporting, internal teams couldn’t monitor project timelines or compliance adherence.

Increased Risk Exposure

The previous model offered no indemnification against worker misclassification.

How our solution helped

educed time-to-fill for key projects by 40%

Standardized onboarding and engagement workflows across all regions

Delivered real-time reporting on hiring activity, project status, and contract renewals

Lifted’s AOR operating model centralized workforce management and improved visibility across domestic and international markets.

Key success factors, which
make us different

Dedicated Support Team

Program managers guided implementation, adoption, and ongoing optimizations.

Advanced Reporting Tools

Custom dashboards enabled better decision-making with real-time performance and compliance insights.

Scalable Architecture

The new process model supports cross-regional hiring with minimal lift from internal teams.

The outcome

From Regional Inconsistency to Global Hiring Precision: Through this engagement, the company transformed its hiring and compliance operations from siloed and reactive to centralized, predictable, and scalable. With reduced time-to-fill and improved visibility into workforce data, the organization now moves faster, with less risk. Lifted is embedded as the client’s strategic partner for compliant, transparent hiring, setting the stage for continued growth across new markets and evolving operational needs.

While this work was performed when these Enterprise solutions were embedded in Upwork, the same offerings and more are now available through Lifted, an Upwork Company.

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