The era of "DX turnover" has arrived! What is the agony of "mid-level employees" in the prime of their work?

Along with the term "2025 cliff," there is a call for digital transformation (DX) among Japanese companies, but progress is still slow. In addition, as a result, many employees, from young employees to veteran employees, are under stress, and a new problem called "DX turnover" has emerged. In this article, based on our survey data from Colorkrew, we will talk about the current situation of DX not progressing, the importance of business improvement, and how to deal with it.

What is DX turnover?

Now, what is "DX turnover"? This refers to employees leaving due to slow DX progress or half-hearted DX, and this survey revealed that about 1 in 3 people face this problem. In particular, the main causes are the slow digitalization of the entire company and insufficient efforts for DX.

Let's talk about it in more detail. In the "2024 Work Style Questionnaire Survey" conducted by our company, Colorkrew, we conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,000 people nationwide about the progress of DX and its impact. As a result, surprisingly, only 6.1% answered that they had already been able to convert it to DX, while 29.3% said they were not particularly working on it. These results highlight the current situation where many companies are struggling to adopt DX.

The generational gap and the agony of mid-level employees

The survey data also revealed a significant generational gap between younger and older employees. Younger employees are more likely to adapt to digitalization, while veteran employees seem to struggle to adapt to new technologies.

In fact, there are many situations where I cannot respond smoothly to changes in the workplace. For example, when internal systems were transferred for the purpose of promoting DX, we tended to think, "Even if it's a little less user-friendly, it's easier to use the existing system...". However, young and mid-career employees seem to be relatively flexible, and there is a generational gap in them.

In the case of a company like me, where the voices of veteran employees are loud, it seems that there are many cases where the introduction of a system that promotes DX is postponed. As a result, it is difficult for companies to make DX progress, and it is easy to maintain operational efficiency in the old ways.

In addition, the results of the survey showed that mid-level employees are often caught between two generations: young employees who are easy to adapt to digitalization and veteran employees who cannot adapt, and mid-level employees often have to act as coordinators in between, and they tend to be wrinkled by this.

The need to promote DX from the perspective of veteran employees

Although we veteran employees are relatively not good at adapting to such changes in work styles, we fully understand that the promotion of DX is the key to reducing unnecessary work, improving the efficiency of business processes, and realizing work style reforms.

In addition, based on this survey, we also found that DX is not progressing, and that half-hearted DX promotion is an opportunity for one in three mid-level employees in the prime of their working years to consider resigning. Delays in DX promotion not only prevent improvement in operational efficiency, but may also lead to a terrible situation for the company in which mid-level employees of Ace retire.

We found that this problem of "DX turnover" is a serious issue for companies. However, in order to solve this problem, all employees need to work together. For example, from the standpoint of veteran employees like us, it is necessary not to stop promoting DX, but rather to support young and mid-level employees while striving to promote DX and improve operations.

DX turnover is resolved with Colorkrew's WorkSaaS

Colorkrew provides Work Software as a Service (Work Software as a Service), a cloud service that promotes DX and improves work styles and work environments to prevent this "DX turnover".

We have developed multiple products, and since all products can be managed at once with Colorkrew ID, which is the product platform, it is easy to manage even if you use multiple products.

Here are some of our products:

All work is done from here, an in-house portal that can be freely customized by Colorkrew Intra

Colorkrew Biz

for General Affairs Tech Services to Reduce "Nameless Jobs ™"

Simple and Flexible Cloud Workflow Service Colorkrew Workflows

Make your organization more colorful. Cross-sectional, flexible, and centralized management. Colorkrew ID

24/365 Security Integrated Monitoring Service Colorkrew Secrity

Safe and secure AI Chat service Colorkew AI Chat

Employees grow, enhance their knowledge, and increase their competitiveness with one question a dayColorkrew Quiz

I think there are some people who are struggling with DX in front of the "cliff of 2025". Some of our products are like Colorkrew biz that are easy to implement and can solve multiple problems with a single one. We develop and provide a variety of Work SaaS products that promote DX while reducing your "nameless work", so if you have any problems promoting DX, please feel free to contact us at any time.

We hope that this blog will be of some help to you in making effective use of your company's space.