Market Overview

The one-time gig staffing service market size (total market sizes of one-time job information, gig work staffing, and HR matching services) for FY2022 rose by 30.6% on YoY to 64,800 million yen.

The workstyle of offering labor for one-time gig has spread in recent years as the term such as “spare time working” or “gig work” has increased recognition. One-time gigs are increasing among students or those young people without regular employment who can dedicate their spare time, or by those company employees as a side job. In such a situation, the opportunity to use one-time gig staffing services that match gig workers with companies that offer such jobs are increasing. Such services have increased the number of users and user companies by satisfying the user demand for working at the place and time they want, or the demand for working side jobs, and demand by companies for filling a sudden vacancy, or staffing only for a particular project. One-time gig is especially wanted at logistics (light labor within a logistics warehouse), food services (food service staff), IT projects (IT engineering on a project-to-project basis), etc.

Noteworthy Topics

The Service Model of One-Time Gig Staffing Enabling “Immediate Receipt of Rewards”

One-time job information services offering information on one-off part-time jobs that last from a few-hours to a-few-days period have a characteristic having a speedy service model of letting workers to find a job that can start today and let them receive the reward immediately.

To realize “immediate receipt of rewards” that is a great advantage for the user, what the providers of one-time job information services do is the advanced payment of reward to the worker on behalf of the client company. By paying the reward on behalf of the client company, the company can instantly use the worker and can simplify the payroll calculation and other complicated procedures, while the worker can receive the reward immediately.

One-time job information service has expanded the market as a new service that provides added values, different from conventional job information services, which is likely to drive the entire one-time gig staffing service market hereafter.

Future Outlook

The one-time gig staffing service market size (total market sizes of one-time job information, gig work staffing, and HR matching services) for FY2023 is projected to grow by 27.2% on YoY to 82,400 million yen. Such expansion owes to further recognition of the one-time gig workstyle expected both among workers and client companies, to continuous labor shortage in every industry that may lead to an increasing number of workers and companies using one-time gig staffing services, which is likely to increase the matching through the said services.

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