Recruitment Starts for the 'Certified Professional NEET (CPN) Qualification Course' to Save Japan
As part of the April Dream project, Alumnus Inc. and the Alumni Research Consortium satirized an overworked future society where everyone is a CEO, jokingly announcing a fictional 'Professional NEET' course to create 'social brakes'.
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Our company supports April Dream, an initiative to make April 1st a day to broadcast dreams. This press release is the dream of 'Alumnus Inc.'.
Alumnus Inc. and the Alumni Research Consortium today announced the results of a national survey, 'What remains if you remove your job title?', and also started recruiting for the Certified Professional NEET (CPN) course.
The unemployment rate hit 0.0%. Hearing that, you might think, 'That's amazing.' Last year, in 2035, the news that 92% of the population concurrently served as representatives of some corporation, sole proprietorship, or DAO caused a stir. But in reality, 'people looking for work' simply disappeared from the statistics.
And now, this country has another problem.
## Because everyone is a president, no one tells you to 'take a rest'.
The 'Alumni Research Consortium' (hereinafter referred to as the Consortium), formed by alumni of national universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area on the cross-sectional alumni platform 'Alumnus' provided by Alumnus Inc., faced this problem head-on. In 2035, a survey of 12,000 people yielded somewhat surprising answers.
'I cannot explain who I am without a job title' ── 73.2%
'I haven't been told 'it's okay to rest' in the past year' ── 78.4%
'I feel relieved when there is someone doing nothing nearby' ── 81.7%
## NEETs (people who appear to be doing nothing) were the 'social brakes'
Why do people feel relieved when there is someone 'doing nothing'? The Consortium had already stepped into this mystery and published a paper in 2034.
Just by having someone doing nothing nearby, an entrepreneur's stress decreases.
In a society where everyone keeps stepping on the accelerator, brakes are needed. NEETs were not a 'burden'. Doing nothing is also an important job. They were the brakes of this society. This paper had 1 million downloads within 48 hours of its publication. '#NEETareBrakes' trended on social media.
## Certified Professional NEET (CPN) Training Course
Based on the research results, the Consortium and Alumnus Inc. jointly decided to hold a 3-month course to train 'professionals at doing nothing'.
Graduates will be dispatched to companies to become people who create an atmosphere where 'it's okay to rest' within the organization. Course contents include an '8-hour practical exam of doing nothing', 'training to suppress the urge that you have to do something', and 'purposeless walks'.
If you come up with a business idea, you fail. Today, starting April 1, 2036, we begin recruiting participants. The first course will start in July of the same year.
In addition, a presentation and explanation event for this training course will be held in Marunouchi, Tokyo on April 30, 2036.
Exchanging business cards is prohibited.
At the venue, based on the knowledge gained from the research that 'people with high stress levels cannot create a state of 'wanting to do nothing' on their own', a prototype of a product that makes you lose motivation and physically melts the outline of work is also scheduled to be exhibited. On all products, the label 'This merchandise will lower your productivity'...
Alumnus Inc. and the Alumni Research Consortium today announced the results of a national survey, 'What remains if you remove your job title?', and also started recruiting for the Certified Professional NEET (CPN) course.
The unemployment rate hit 0.0%. Hearing that, you might think, 'That's amazing.' Last year, in 2035, the news that 92% of the population concurrently served as representatives of some corporation, sole proprietorship, or DAO caused a stir. But in reality, 'people looking for work' simply disappeared from the statistics.
And now, this country has another problem.
## Because everyone is a president, no one tells you to 'take a rest'.
The 'Alumni Research Consortium' (hereinafter referred to as the Consortium), formed by alumni of national universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area on the cross-sectional alumni platform 'Alumnus' provided by Alumnus Inc., faced this problem head-on. In 2035, a survey of 12,000 people yielded somewhat surprising answers.
'I cannot explain who I am without a job title' ── 73.2%
'I haven't been told 'it's okay to rest' in the past year' ── 78.4%
'I feel relieved when there is someone doing nothing nearby' ── 81.7%
## NEETs (people who appear to be doing nothing) were the 'social brakes'
Why do people feel relieved when there is someone 'doing nothing'? The Consortium had already stepped into this mystery and published a paper in 2034.
Just by having someone doing nothing nearby, an entrepreneur's stress decreases.
In a society where everyone keeps stepping on the accelerator, brakes are needed. NEETs were not a 'burden'. Doing nothing is also an important job. They were the brakes of this society. This paper had 1 million downloads within 48 hours of its publication. '#NEETareBrakes' trended on social media.
## Certified Professional NEET (CPN) Training Course
Based on the research results, the Consortium and Alumnus Inc. jointly decided to hold a 3-month course to train 'professionals at doing nothing'.
Graduates will be dispatched to companies to become people who create an atmosphere where 'it's okay to rest' within the organization. Course contents include an '8-hour practical exam of doing nothing', 'training to suppress the urge that you have to do something', and 'purposeless walks'.
If you come up with a business idea, you fail. Today, starting April 1, 2036, we begin recruiting participants. The first course will start in July of the same year.
In addition, a presentation and explanation event for this training course will be held in Marunouchi, Tokyo on April 30, 2036.
Exchanging business cards is prohibited.
At the venue, based on the knowledge gained from the research that 'people with high stress levels cannot create a state of 'wanting to do nothing' on their own', a prototype of a product that makes you lose motivation and physically melts the outline of work is also scheduled to be exhibited. On all products, the label 'This merchandise will lower your productivity'...