Purpose: Online sales have significantly increased, especially in the realm of the COVID emergency. For B2C e-commerce, reverse logistics is critical: it strongly impacts the willingness of customers to buy online, but it is very expensive for online players, who are striving to find ways to...

Purpose: The significance and pervasiveness of B2C e-commerce raise the question about its impact on employment under a social sustainability perspective. This study is aims to quantify the labour demand in logistics comparing the e-commerce order fulfilment process and the traditional...