Stabilizing Monthly Hiring at 750 Employees
First written in FY2016. 7 of 19 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2022-Q1. Latest entry: FY2025.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2019: 2 of 8 companies on the "Worse" side.
1 other company's latest entry also says "Restated".
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「As the decline in Japan’s working-age population has worsened labor shortages in manufacturing, the Group views staffing itself as a service and aims to provide as many people as possible with employment opportunities, focusing on making 2,000 hires per month the norm.」
The company continues to promote making 2,000 monthly hires the norm as a key performance indicator. In FY2025, it focused on addressing issues involved in achieving this, including strengthening on-site management and securing new job orders. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「In March 2024, the Group achieved mid-career hiring of well over 2,000 people in a single month for the first time.」
Toward making 2,000 monthly hires the norm, the company hired a record 2,344 people in March 2024. Although it also achieved levels of 1,800 to 1,900 hires in July and September, issues including post-hire follow-up and on-site management have emerged on the path to making this the norm. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「The current number of domestic technical employees, 33,000, will be expanded to approximately 50,000 by the final year. Under the Fourth Mid-term Management Plan rolling plan, the company will improve the convenience of staffing as a way of working and make hiring 2,000 people per month the norm.」
In addition to making 2,000 monthly hires the norm, the company set a target of increasing domestic technical employees from approximately 33,000 currently to approximately 50,000 by the final year, specifying the target as 54,478 in the full-year plan’s numerical table. - FY2024-Q3RaisedAnnual report
「The company will improve the convenience of staffing as a way of working and make hiring 2,000 people per month the norm. The current number of domestic technical employees, 32,000, will be expanded to approximately 50,000 by the final year.」
The company clarified its target, shifting from establishing the capacity to hire 2,000 people per month to making 2,000 monthly hires the norm, and added a new scale target of increasing domestic technical employees from the current 32,000 to approximately 50,000 by the final year. - FY2024-Q2Continued investment in recruitment alongside near-term hiring restraintAnnual report
「The company restrained recruitment while working to further strengthen its relationships with customer companies, including by rolling out a collaborative talent development staffing model that closely coordinates with customers to train inexperienced workers and achieve continuous workplace improvements.」
Because demand in the Manufacturing business was below expectations, the company restrained recruitment. At the Group level, however, it continued strategic investments, including establishing a system for hiring 2,000 people per month, so its policy of expanding recruitment coexists with near-term restraint. - FY2024-Q1RaisedAnnual report
「While continuing recruitment in line with trends in demand for personnel during the first half of the consolidated fiscal year, the company will establish a system capable of hiring 2,000 mid-career employees per month for the second half, when demand is expected to increase, and strengthen functions to further improve the retention rate and skills of technical employees. Through these measures, it aims to achieve its performance targets for the final year of the Fourth Mid-term Plan and accelerate the Group’s medium- to long-term growth.」
The recruitment capacity target has been raised from the former policy of 1,000 hires per month to establishing a system capable of hiring 2,000 mid-career employees per month toward the second half of the fiscal year. - FY2023SoftenedAnnual report
「In the Industrial and Business Machinery-related and Electronics-related fields, the company pursued cautious recruitment in light of customer conditions, including the postponement of new staffing demand and the decision not to fill vacancies since around the start of autumn against a backdrop of semiconductor inventory adjustments and other factors.」
In response to semiconductor inventory adjustments and other factors, the Manufacturing business has shifted to cautious recruitment based on new staffing demand, weakening its previous policy of expanding hiring. - FY2023-Q3SoftenedAnnual report
「In the Industrial and Business Machinery and Electronics-related fields, the company pursued cautious recruitment in light of customer conditions, including the postponement of new staffing demand since around the start of autumn against a backdrop of semiconductor inventory adjustments and other factors.」
In response to semiconductor inventory adjustments and other factors, the Manufacturing business has shifted to cautious recruitment based on new staffing demand. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Under these conditions, revenue increased as the company pursued recruitment with a focus on efficiency, increased the number of technical employees year on year, promoted its high-quality personnel management offering, and advanced the placement of highly skilled personnel trained in-house. As a result, revenue was ¥41,345 million (¥35,796 million in the same period of the previous year, up 15.5%), segment profit was ¥5,328 million (¥2,488 million, up 114.1%), and the number of technical employees was 14,786 (14,133, an increase of 653).」
The company pursued recruitment with a focus on efficiency, increasing the number of technical employees in the Manufacturing business by 653 year on year. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「During the consolidated fiscal year, the company pursued active recruitment to meet demand for personnel, which had recovered sharply since the second half of the previous fiscal year, achieving 17,662 hires in its domestic businesses.」
In connection with the former recruitment policy of 1,000 hires per month, the company achieved 17,662 domestic hires for the full year, demonstrating renewed progress in strengthening recruitment. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「During the first nine months of the current consolidated cumulative period, we pursued active recruitment to meet the sharp recovery in demand for personnel that began in the second half of the previous fiscal year. As a result, we recruited 13,219 people in our domestic business, bringing the number of domestic technical employees to a record high and significantly increasing net sales.」
Active recruitment brought domestic hiring during the cumulative third quarter to 13,219, while the number of domestic technical employees reached a record high. - FY2022-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「During the cumulative second quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the company pursued active recruitment to meet demand for personnel, which had recovered sharply since the second half of the previous fiscal year. Following the first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, it achieved 4,655 hires in the second quarter, far exceeding the previous quarterly record, and significantly increased both the number of technical employees and revenue.」
Active recruitment resulted in a new quarterly record of 4,655 hires. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「During the cumulative first quarter of the consolidated fiscal year, the company pursued active recruitment to meet demand for personnel, which had recovered sharply since the second half of the previous fiscal year. It achieved 4,410 hires, far exceeding the previous quarterly record, and significantly increased both the number of technical employees and revenue.」
The company stepped up recruitment again in line with its previous policy of expanding hiring, setting a new record of 4,410 hires in a quarter. - FY2021-Q3Renewed focus on recruitmentAnnual report
「As customer companies’ production activity began to recover from around the start of autumn and the Group’s order environment improved, the entire company focused on recruitment.」
With production activity and the order environment recovering, the company has shifted from restraining recruitment, as seen in FY2021-Q1 and Q2, to focusing on recruitment across the Group again. However, this filing does not explicitly state the former target of 1,000 hires per month. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「However, overall production activity had not yet reached a full recovery, and the number of technical employees declined because hiring was restrained.」
As a full recovery in demand for personnel was delayed, the Manufacturing business restrained hiring, and, as in FY2021-Q1, the policy of expanding recruitment toward 1,000 hires per month was not being actively pursued in the near term. - FY2021-Q1SoftenedAnnual report
「Recruitment expenses declined as hiring was temporarily restrained because the outlook for customer demand for personnel was uncertain.」
Because of uncertainty over customer demand, the Manufacturing business temporarily restrained hiring, weakening its previous policy of expanding recruitment in the near term. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「The company will expand its in-house share among existing customers, expand its sales and recruitment share in each region, and establish a recruitment system to stabilize hiring at 1,000 people per month.」
The company continues to set out the raised target of stabilizing hiring at 1,000 people per month, together with expanding its sales and recruitment share among existing customers and in each region. - FY2018RaisedAnnual report
「The company will expand its in-house share among existing customers, expand its sales and recruitment share in each region, and establish a recruitment system to stabilize hiring at 1,000 people per month.」
The recruitment target has been raised from stabilizing hiring at 750 people per month to stabilizing hiring at 1,000 people per month. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「In the manufacturing staffing business, the company will expand its in-house share among existing customers, expand its sales and recruitment share in each region, and establish a recruitment system to stabilize hiring at 750 people per month.」
The company indicated a monthly hiring scale of 750 and set out the establishment of a recruitment system to stabilize it.