Future of gig economy in Post COVID Japanese economy

Gig economy where people pursue their side hustle, passion and be at their best ie enjoy life, and contribute to society while increasing productivity and economic output.

As the Japanese population is in decline, it needs more workforce and most importantly more human connection in society so society can thrive.

Japanese society is most ready for gig work as it needs to include Women, adults, professionals, and even full-time employees into the economy to add value. Also, society is most ready to embrace emerging technologies to help assist gig workers such as cognitive technologies ie video tech, voice tech, biometrics, AR/VR aided with AI.

Zehitomo, hire local service professionals startup, is positioned perfectly to deliver value beyond such as

• aiding giant companies to perform small distributed tasks online/offline so they can focus on innovation and vice versa.
• how about access to a remote health consultant, tuition, remote job, or remotely operated job.

What will happen if people started pursuing their side hustle which increases 15%-20% of workforce productivity?

What will happen if women, adults, professionals got inspired, influenced, and encouraged to participate?

It will not only give need real-life experience but potentially can increase GDP by 13 to 15 percent. Which is what Abe-san was aiming for.

ie It can increase GDP by $762 billion which is huge market size.

There can’t be a better time than this where people lost jobs in record number, ~80K, especially young people who have given up even finding jobs. which is very painful when realizing how it will affect their career.

Income has decreased, is in decline, even for a full-time employee.

There is a real opportunity here to make a real difference, isn’t it?