The food and beverage delivery service industry, whose demand is increasing due to the effects of the new coronavirus, is promoting an “employee share” initiative that temporarily accepts employees from other industries.
It is attracting attention as a new human resources utilization measure between the delivery service side aiming to solve the labor shortage and the company struggling to maintain employment.
“Delivery Hall,” a major home delivery service, is being handled more and more due to the effects of refraining from going out and shortening the business hours of restaurants, and there is a shortage of delivery employees.
For this reason, the company has partnered with companies in different industries and has begun full-scale efforts since last month to have the employees of the partner take on the delivery work.
The company pays a fee according to the number of deliveries to partner companies, and in the future, we will expand alliances with companies that have been hit by the new corona such as restaurants and tourism. ..
These efforts are called “employee share” and are attracting attention as a new way to utilize human resources between companies with serious labor shortages and companies that are struggling to maintain employment.
Haruko Kiyomura, director of the delivery hall, said, "It is meaningful to protect the employment of companies that are forced to shorten sales or leave, and we want to increase the number of companies that cooperate with tourism and food companies."
Restaurants participating in "employee share"
One of the companies participating in employee sharing, which operates nine Chinese restaurants in Kanagawa Prefecture, uses four of these as bases for home delivery services.
It continues to operate as a Chinese restaurant, but when an order for a home delivery service is placed, employees will deliver products from other restaurants.
Since the spread of the new coronavirus last spring, the company has been closed and shortened business hours one after another, and sales have fallen sharply, but some of the employees in charge of cooking and customer service will be switched to home delivery service personnel. So, it is said that it was able to maintain the employment of about 60 people. As the demand for home delivery increased, 20 new employees were hired as delivery personnel.
The company's president, Tsuyoshi Ban, said, "Carrying food from other stores will lead to sales and is important in terms of employment. I think this situation will continue for the time being, so I would like to focus on the home delivery business." ..