The white paper of the year is pointed out that technological innovation which can be said as the Fourth Industrial Revolution has led to an era in which living and society evolve drastically, focusing on the influence on people's way of working, I wrote.

As a result of investigations into companies, "AI" = popularity of artificial intelligence and "IoT" connecting goods and the Internet, employment decreases in jobs such as general affairs, secretarial, personnel, accounting, factory manufacturing processes , It is expected that employment will increase on the contrary in sales, sales etc. that require technical professionals and dialogue with people.

Therefore, we are forced to train human resources superior in management ability, analytical skill and communication skills which are difficult to replace with human resources and machines with advanced IT skills which are short in Japan.

In order to nurture such human resources, the white paper pointed out the importance of "reworking" in which social workers acquire skills in universities and correspondence education regardless of age, in addition to training in the company It is.