Summary of Multiple Jobs (Parallel Work)

As of 2017, an interesting trend is taking place in Japan, and it would be interesting to collect information on it so that we can look back on it with interest in the future.

Human life expectancy has lengthened, and people are now living longer than tissues.

The likelihood that your organization will cease to exist or change significantly during your lifetime has increased dramatically from previous generations.

That's where a "second life" is needed.

2016/03/10

Yoshihisa Aono, Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare's project "Future 2035: The Future of Work" proposes "banning regulations that prohibit side jobs at companies.

In a panel discussion at the Unexplored Conference 2016

Tsuyoshi Natsuno, "Ban on Secondary Employment."

Mr. Daisuke Okanohara

Japanese people work too much and have no time to learn.

It is good to master a specialty, but when that specialty no longer works, you can't move on to something else.

It's good when a second job becomes an opportunity to learn another skill.

Kinya Tagawa

Our company recommends that leadership personnel have a second business card.

Interesting things happen, the company becomes more relative, and the company becomes richer in content.

It's healthier now.

Mr. Shunsuke Aoki

(In response to a question from the audience as to whether a corporate climate and corporate culture can be fostered)

Maybe after the company has grown and become bigger and has a clear culture and climate.

Around November 2016

Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) removes the provision in the "Model Employment Regulations" that in principle prohibits side/concurrent jobs, and adds a provision that in principle permits such jobs, specifying as exceptions those that "may lead to the leakage of trade secrets to other companies in the same industry" and "may lead to long working hours.

The Council for the Realization of Workplace Reform was established to contribute to deliberations on the formulation of an action plan for the realization of reforms in the way people work.

2017/03/28

Prime Minister's Office "Action Plan for Workplace Reform" released.

Promoting the spread of side jobs and dual employment, in principle allowing side jobs and dual employment while taking care to ensure the health of workers

NTT West has begun a program to send employees on secondment to startup companies for one year. The program is intended to allow employees to experience a corporate culture and management know-how that differs from those of major companies, and to create products and services that are not bound by conventional wisdom. In cooperation with Loan Deal (Setagaya, Tokyo), a company that mediates the secondment of human resources between companies, NTT West is inviting applicants for the program.

2017/11/20 Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare Submission of a proposal to amend the Model Employment Regulations to allow side jobs to the Expert Panel.

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