Challenge: the benefits of upfront investment in human resource development and corporate structural improvement have yet to materialize
First written in FY2023. 3 of 5 entries say "Worsened", first in FY2024. Latest entry: FY2026.
No other company in this theme has enough history to compare yet.
- FY2026RestatedAnnual report
「In terms of the impact on our business, although we are improving employee benefits and providing training as investments in corporate culture and human capital, the continuing shortage of both personnel and labor remains an internal challenge, among other issues.」
Although the company is improving employee benefits and providing training, the continuing shortage of personnel and labor remains an internal challenge in transforming its business structure. - 2026-06-06WorsenedGeneral Meetings of Shareholders
「Although we have been able to improve employee treatment and provide training, we have not made sufficient progress in developing and recruiting core personnel. We will therefore continue investing in human capital.」
The disclosure states that employee treatment and training have been implemented, while explicitly identifying insufficient progress in developing and recruiting core personnel as an issue. - FY2025WorsenedAnnual report
「Although the company is improving employee benefits and providing training as investments in corporate culture and human capital, continuing shortages of both personnel and labor remain internal challenges, among other issues.」
While improving employee benefits and providing training, the company explicitly identifies the continuing shortage of personnel and labor as an internal challenge in transforming its business structure. - FY2024WorsenedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, the Company was occupied with addressing existing businesses such as legacy PBX, failed to develop and commercialize specific offerings for the network business, and was unable to secure sufficient time for employees to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to support the new businesses. Accordingly, it cannot be said to have achieved sufficient results in transforming its business structure.」
It states that insufficient time has been secured for talent development and the acquisition of knowledge and skills, and that the business structure transformation has not produced sufficient results, giving greater specificity to the longstanding challenge that the benefits of upfront investment have not yet emerged. - FY2023First statedAnnual report
「The company has not developed an internal sense of urgency because the legacy PBX business remains sizeable to a certain extent, and the benefits of investment, including upfront investment, in talent development and improving the corporate culture have not yet emerged.」
For the first time, it explicitly identifies insufficient internal concern about the legacy PBX business and the unrealized benefits of upfront investment in talent development and improving the corporate culture as internal factors in business structure reform.