The New Workplace in Japan
Skills for a Strong Recovery
In the context of a rapidly changing world of work, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened pre-existing challenges to Japan’s adult learning system and raised new ones. This report examines how skill requirements have been evolving in Japan prior to and during the COVID-19 crisis. It examines changes in the skills composition of Japan’s workforce as well as policy efforts to improve the accessibility of career guidance, broaden training participation and foster the adoption of teleworking practices. The report also provides concrete recommendations to tackle inequalities in skills and training among socio-demographic groups. Finally, it provides suggestions for how to develop a labour market information system to feed real-time data into crucial policy and decision-making processes.
Foreword
The COVID‑19 pandemic sparked one of the sharpest contractions in economic activity in living memory. A swifter than expected recovery followed, but the crisis exposed a number of flaws in the current labour market and skills systems in many, if not all, countries. The extent to which workers can adapt to changes in the type and content of jobs depends critically on the readiness and flexibility of adult learning systems to help people develop and maintain relevant skills over their working careers.
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