Japan urges companies to invest more in their workers

Japan urges companies to invest more in their workers

Workers who lack the skills to help shape the digital future risk having their jobs automated. © Reuters TOKYO — Japanese employers and employees will have to work together to improve workers’ skills or risk being left behind by the digital revolution, according to the upcoming Annual Report on the Japanese Economy and Public Finance 2018.

Japan’s Cabinet Office is finalizing the report and could release it this month.

A draft of the report seen by Nikkei stresses the impact that the digital revolution is having on Japan’s labor force. Saying further economic growth rests on workers becoming more digitally literate, […]

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