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This article aims to help realise the ‘true flexible work style’ that modern Japanese society demands by testing the hypothesis that ‘dispatched work’ may be viewed positively as one of the diverse ways of working. First, I define ‘true flexible working’ as ‘a state in which one can flexibly choose jobs in order to have a free lifestyle’. Based on this, I examined the future prospects of Japanese dispatched staffing industry by comparing the dispatched labour of Japan and the United Kingdom, which boasts the world’s highest proportion of dispatched workers.
The results show that dispatched work is being reconsidered from light work and clerical work, which previously assumed a ‘complementary role to regular employees’, to a means to quickly and efficiently acquire skills and knowledge that cannot be provided in-house. However, the aims and progress of legal arrangements differ between Japan and the UK in light of the actual circumstances of the two countries due to differences in awareness of labour ? especially for dispatched workers ? and differences in the ‘contents of protection’ in legal development. Therefore, it is important to adhere to the conditions essential for one’s own country and to mutually refer to and apply the advanced ideas of other countries as future revisions. It is also important to incorporate the British legal system in response to future changes in the labour market in Japan.
Overall, instead of the traditional work style of ‘subordinating to the company and being protected with in it’, it is now necessary to ‘improve one’s own skills and techniques effectively and efficiently and improve working conditions on one’s own’. I believe that dispatched workers can enjoy flexible working styles by choosing the type of work in which they wish to engage. In the realisation of flexible work styles in Japan, dispatched labour can be transformed from ‘complementary human resources to regular employees’ into ‘excellent human resources skilled in specific skills’ through opportunities to play an active role, becoming a positive form of diverse work styles. |