Over 100 companies now offer PayPay, a government-approved mobile payment app, as a method to receive salaries, but only 2.8 percent of 20,000 people aged between 18 and 69 surveyed recently said they are paid via the app or another like it, despite 61.9 per cent knowing it may be possible, Kyodo News reported citing research firm MMD Labo.
Partial or complete salary payments via one of the approved apps are also mostly available only to full-time employees, with the experts saying that part-time workers who want to be paid more swiftly are a group that would likely take up the option more readily.
Yoshinoya Co., a beef bowl chain operator, began offering salary payments via PayPay in April.
Meanwhile, another survey conducted by a private-sector company for the government targeting 10,000 people showed that approximately a third do not want to receive their salaries on one of the apps. Of those not interested, 48 percent said they do not see the need for it.
Despite there being little demand for app salary payments, Japanese are slowly but steadily shaking off their preference for notes and coins.
The percentage of cashless payments in 2024 topped 40 percent of all settlements in value, achieving the government’s target a year ahead of schedule, the economy ministry said.
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