Lack of manpower a stumbling block to business expansion
- The following is content from the press release -
(Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Juichi Kakumae) is developing an online assistant service, "TASCAL," for small and medium-sized companies that undertakes entire back-office operations such as secretarial, accounting, and general affairs. In May 2024, we conducted a survey of approximately 400 clients to ascertain the actual market situation regarding the recent labor shortage.
52.6% of companies are short of labor; bankruptcies in 2011 were up 86% from the previous year.
Bottlenecks in business activities
According to a survey published by Teikoku Databank in February 2024, 52.6% of all companies feel that they are short of full-time employees. In addition, the "2024 White Paper on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Small Businesses" published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry reports that companies are experiencing a serious labor shortage as they recover from the drop in sales caused by the new type of coronavirus infection. Furthermore, the number of bankruptcies due to labor shortages in 2023 announced by Teikoku Databank reached 260, up 861 TP7T from the previous year. These statistics indicate that labor shortages are a serious problem for Japanese companies.
The current situation is that multiple jobs cannot keep up if there are not enough people.
Multiple job needs arise
As the shortage of labor continues and more SMEs are unable to turn around work with only their employees, more and more are requesting Tuskal to handle their work. In May 2024, TASCAL conducted a survey of the types of work that TASCAL handles, and compiled the results in a ranking format in order to gain a better understanding of the actual situation of small and medium-sized enterprises. The survey revealed that Tuskal is requested by SMEs for a very wide variety of tasks.
Small and medium-sized enterprises do not have separate operations such as "I want to delegate this task," but rather have the problem of "there are many things I need to do, but I can't do them because I don't have enough manpower. It is clear that support that can handle multiple tasks at the same time is in demand.
Case Study] Sixteen workers handle seven types of work! Profit increased 1.5 times without increasing employees
Lens Associates Inc., a Nagoya-based design firm specializing in branding (14 employees), has been working with Tuskal.
We have succeeded in growing our business by outsourcing multiple tasks. The tasks we handle include scheduling, accounting, legal, SNS operation, mail handling, document preparation, case management, and many others. The 16 mom-and-pop workers form teams for each task, allowing them to work without slowing down while giving priority to their own family situations.
Mr. Yano (pictured on the right), the representative of the company, is also active as a top sales representative on a daily basis in addition to his management duties, making it difficult for him to manage his schedule. He decided to request secretarial services from Tuskal because he found it difficult to cope with the task on his own from time to time. As a result, he was able to adjust his time without having to hire a secretarial employee, allowing him to focus on his own business affairs.
Based on this successful experience, the momentum for "It would be a waste if only the president The company decided to ask the president to manage the schedules of other employees who are overloaded with work and to do administrative work on their behalf. The company decided to request TASCAL to manage the schedules of other employees who were overloaded with work and to perform clerical work on their behalf. Currently, 16 Tuskal staff members, more than the number of employees, support the work of all 14 employees. It functions as a "pseudo back-office department," managing orders to subcontractors, sales, and projects.
We have received positive feedback that it is difficult to increase the number of employees dedicated to back-office operations, and that it is helpful to have everything covered by Tuskal, which costs a minimum of ¥25,000 per month per month. As a result of employees being able to focus on their core business, company sales have increased 158% without increasing the number of employees.
Mr. Yano, the representative: "Tuskal-san fits in like air (laughs).
About "TUSCAL
This is an online assistant service for busy executives, managers, and sole proprietors, who can entrust their entire web operations, office work, accounting, etc. to us for as little as 10 hours per month. The service is easy to use for startups and small companies. We have approximately 400 assignable staff members.
About Us
Company name: Colors Corporation (Representative Director: Toshikazu Kakumae)
Head Office : 2F Ginza Otake Visidence, 1-22-11 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan
Business description: Online assistant business "Tuskal
URL : https://color-s.net/
