The state has issued policies to encourage innovation in sideline businesses, and create a pattern of vigorous development of part-time employment and sideline businesses——
Don’t hesitate to do a part-time job
Some work online car-hailing and work as delivery staff after work; some make copywriting and run e-commerce as amateurs; others make community group buying and visual design... Nowadays, many white-collar, blue-collar, full-time housewives and retirees do Started a part-time job and a side job.
Recently, "encourage'sideline innovation'", "part-time employment, and sideline entrepreneurship" have been formally written into official documents of multiple ministries.
What is the status quo of part-time jobs and side jobs?
What new changes will the new format bring?
What are the demands of practitioners and employers?
Our reporter conducted an interview.
"Slash" life choices
——32.5% of interviewed white-collar workers have engaged in flexible employment or part-time employment, and nearly 40% of takeaway riders have other jobs
Liu Min from Jinan, Shandong is a full-time housewife.
Now that both children are of school age, she has also found a side job for herself.
In July this year, Liu Min began to serve as the preferred team leader on the Meituan Preferred Platform.
The so-called "group leader" is to gather consumers around the community with fresh retail shopping needs to select products, initiate groups, and receive and deliver goods.
Relying on the understanding of the community and the trust of the neighbors, in just ten days, Liu Min has established a user group of more than 300 people, with an average daily turnover of about 1,000 yuan, and the number of users is increasing.
Originally, Liu Min just gave it a try, "mainly because doing community group buying can take care of family and work, and has time to pick up children to and from school."
And now, life has undergone positive changes because of this sideline.
"Being a team leader has a wide range of contacts, seeing more customers, and my mentality and horizons have expanded." She said.
Whether it is a housewife, a white-collar worker, a blue-collar worker, or a supermarket shopkeeper... At present, doing a side job or part-time job is becoming a new way for many people to work flexibly.
Taking riding crafts as an example, the "Rider Employment Report for the First Half of 2020" released by the Meituan Research Institute shows that nearly 40% of the riders have other jobs, and 36.2% of the riders only work 50% or less of all their working hours. .
As the job market changes, part-time and flexible employment are also being accepted by more people.
Zhaopin’s recently released "Employment Trend Report 2020" mentioned that last year, more than 70% of white-collar workers expressed expectations and recognition for flexible employment. According to a survey this year, 32.5% of white-collar workers surveyed said they were engaged White-collar workers in small and micro enterprises with less than 100 employees have experienced flexible employment or part-time employment, accounting for 36.6% of the “slash” life.
The National Development and Reform Commission and other departments recently issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Healthy Development of New Business Forms and New Models, Activate the Consumer Market and Drive Employment Expansion", which formally "corrects the name" of part-time and sideline jobs.
The document is clear, vigorously develop micro-economy, encourage "sideline innovation"; focus on stimulating the innovation and creativity of various subjects, and create a vigorous development pattern in multiple forms such as part-time employment and sideline entrepreneurship.
In the view of Zhang Libin, director of the Employment and Entrepreneurship Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, this is a full affirmation and encouragement of popular employment practices in reality.
“Especially since the outbreak of the epidemic, the service industry and other industries have not fully recovered, and some people’s employment has been affected, and some may be underemployed. In this case, through flexible employment, part-time, sideline and other channels, Giving full play to subjective initiative, even if it is just the corners and corners, is conducive to achieving more full employment." Zhang Libin told our reporter.
New technology expansion possibilities
——In the past six months, Alipay’s over 500,000 merchants posted more than 20 million part-time jobs; WeChat drove 15.19 million part-time jobs in 2019
Full-time white-collar workers operate public accounts on a part-time basis, part-time copywriting collaborations for college students, as well as e-sports anchors, voice anchors, dialect translators, internet narrators... Although part-time and side jobs are not new things, new technologies and new formats are flourishing. They create richer forms and more possibilities.
Xiao Zhu is a recent graduate of the Japanese major. While not delaying graduation, she found herself a part-time job as a "voice anchor".
Live broadcast for a few hours every night, talk about current hot topics, teach some Japanese, not only accumulate fans for myself, but also try the most popular live broadcast format.
"Although there is no freedom of wealth, but at least the freedom of life is realized." She said.
With the growth of new business formats, some part-time and sideline opportunities have emerged in batches.
Alipay data shows that in the past six months, Alipay has more than 500,000 merchants posting digital recruitment positions, and the number of part-time jobs exceeds 20 million, which is three times that of the same period last year.
These positions have attracted 65 million college students to submit resumes. Among them, half of them can earn money from their homes without leaving their homes, and the average daily salary is more than 200 yuan.
Tencent WeChat and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology jointly released the "2019-2020 WeChat Employment Impact Report" also showed that 15.19 million of the direct employment opportunities driven by WeChat in 2019 were part-time jobs, accounting for nearly 60% of the total direct employment opportunities.
At present, part-time employment based on WeChat mainly includes skills output-based education services, contribution writing, self-media, e-commerce, financial management, expression design, etc.
At the same time, there are also a certain number of part-time employees in the operation, development, design and maintenance of WeChat official accounts, mini programs, and payments.
"my country's digital economy is developing rapidly, and technological progress has allowed resources to be allocated more effectively, allowing the possibility of various factors to be deeply explored. The same industry may not have the opportunity to make money before, but now there are many part-time and sideline opportunities. It is technology Progress has created more room for development." Zhang Libin said.
Taking the traditional life service industry as an example, as the digitalization of the industry accelerates, the demand for flexible employment positions increases.
A survey conducted by the Meituan Research Institute on merchants in the life service industry shows that there are many types of flexible employment positions, ranging from waiters to online operations and some core service positions, such as chefs, hair stylists, fitness coaches, and online class teachers.
Enterprise and individual are flexible and win-win
——Probing a long way to increase the income of practitioners and increase the availability of talents for enterprises. 55.2% of merchants in the life service industry have flexible employment needs
Ms. Wang from Beijing is a full-time white-collar worker. Because she is interested in jewelry products, she simply started a "micro business" on social platforms.
Relying on the support of our own physical stores and word-of-mouth recommendations among acquaintances, we have now accumulated many customers.
"It's not only a hobby, but it can also recommend high-quality products for everyone, and it can also increase income. This sideline is not bad." She said.
So, what are the considerations for people to take part-time jobs and side jobs?
Depending on the individual, it can increase the talent of Pathfinder.
According to a survey conducted by the Meituan Research Institute, among the flexible employment in the life service industry, 32.1% of the practitioners are to exercise their abilities and broaden their paths; 29.5% of the practitioners maximize their talents through freelance work; 27.3% of the practitioners are due to Internet information Transparent and flexible employment opportunities.
"Flexible employment is conducive to freelancers exporting their expertise, skills and resources to multiple parties through a package of projects. Freelancers have sufficient flexibility and autonomy to maximize their own value." The report pointed out.
Looking at the company, talents can be more available.
"Flexible employment integrates fragmented time and fragmented tasks, which greatly reduces the employment threshold of high-skilled talents in enterprises, such as digital managers, artificial intelligence trainers, and drone drivers, and increases the availability of talents. In addition, flexible labor can be paid on demand, which can effectively respond to the peak and valley labor needs of the industry.” A survey by the Meituan Research Institute shows that 55.2% of the living service industry merchants have flexible employment needs; the employment of the living service industry merchants after the epidemic In the plan, 41.0% of merchants indicated that they would increase flexible jobs.
This time, the relevant state departments clearly encourage "sideline innovation", which is also considered to be beneficial to the future job market.
In Zhang Libin's view, the most critical aspect of promoting employment through policy means is the reform of decentralization, regulation and service.
It is necessary to further lower the threshold for part-time employment and sideline entrepreneurship, eliminate obstacles in the system and mechanism, and allow various market factors to fully flow.
"The most fundamental thing is to rely on market forces to reduce employment restrictions in all aspects." Zhang Libin said.
From encouraging the development of a new individual economy to "sideline innovation" and multi-point practice, people see more possibilities for future employment.
"In the digital age, a person is a company has become a reality, and more and more personalized entrepreneurial innovation will appear." Ant Group CEO Hu Xiaoming said recently.
Our reporter Li Jie