"Building Non-Face-to-Face Work Systems, Solved with Non-Face-to-Face Service Vouchers"

2022 Non-Face-to-Face Service Voucher Demand Company Recruitment Announcement

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Kwon Chil-seung, hereinafter referred to as the Ministry) announced on the 14th its plan to recruit demand companies for the '2022 Non-face-to-face Service Voucher Project' to establish non-face-to-face work systems such as remote and telecommuting for small and medium-sized enterprises.

This year, with a budget of 41 billion KRW, vouchers enabling the use of non-face-to-face services will be provided to about 15,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, with support of up to 4 million KRW per company (including 30% self-payment).

The voucher support targets small and medium-sized enterprises as defined in Article 2 of the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises, and from this year, the self-payment rate has been increased to support companies with a strong willingness to utilize non-face-to-face services. Businesses without employees, which have relatively low demand for non-face-to-face services, are excluded from the application target.

Applications will be accepted from the 1st to the 14th of next month through the 'K-Non-face-to-face Voucher Platform.' Vouchers will be distributed in order of high evaluation scores based on the assessment of service utilization plans submitted by applicant companies.

Demand companies receiving vouchers can select their desired service fields and suppliers within the 4 million KRW voucher limit to receive voucher services. Service products provided by suppliers will be disclosed through the platform starting from the 30th of this month.

In particular, from this year, to fundamentally block fraudulent acts such as proxy applications, payments, and paybacks, the submission of an integrity pledge is mandatory, and actual service usage will be checked through service access records.

If there is no login record within 30 days after payment for the service product, the payment will be canceled and the project funds will be reclaimed. Even during service use, if there is no service access record for three consecutive months, government support will be suspended.

Lee Sang-jeon, Director of the Non-face-to-face Economy Division at the Ministry, said, "In response to the full-scale spread of non-face-to-face work environments, we have restructured the project by raising the self-payment rate and introducing service utilization plan evaluations to enhance service utilization and performance," adding, "We will actively strive to enable many small and medium-sized enterprises to utilize the Non-face-to-face Service Voucher Project to establish non-face-to-face work environments such as remote and telecommuting."

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