Supporting Employee Skills Development and Creating a Better Workplace

「Each operating company leverages its respective expertise to establish training programs and qualification systems required of technicians, creating an environment in which even those without prior experience can contribute and grow over time. The company identifies each employee's career turning points and preferences regarding work styles, and provides motivated technical and skilled employees with opportunities to transfer to new duties and attend training. It continues to support their efforts to take on new challenges at work and develop their careers toward the future they aspire to. For office-based employees, the Group has also formulated a group-wide Human Resources Policy and is proceeding with the establishment and appropriate operation of personnel systems aligned with that policy.」

「Each operating company leverages its respective expertise to establish training programs and qualification systems required of technicians, creating an environment in which even those without prior experience can contribute and grow over time. The company identifies each employee's career turning points and preferences regarding work styles, and provides motivated technical and skilled employees with opportunities to transfer to new duties and attend training. It continues to support their efforts to take on new challenges at work and develop their careers toward the future they aspire to.」

「In terms of profit, the Company invested actively in hiring and training inexperienced personnel and in sales activities, with the aim of further increasing the number of employees placed with clients, causing the profit margin to decline slightly.」

「The company is also providing support through dedicated departments and other human resources structures, while making flexible use of systems such as talent management, to accurately assess employees' skills, workplace evaluations and motivation. This enables it to identify career turning points and preferences regarding work styles, and to provide timely opportunities for the next step, such as transfers to new duties and training.」

「Even amid the current spread of the novel coronavirus, we will promptly establish adjustments and rules for the work environment, including telework, as well as new methods of care and communication, in response to changes in the working environment.」

「Meanwhile, demand for personnel in the semiconductor sector, which had stagnated due to trade issues between the United States and China and other factors, gradually began to recover. Demand for IT software engineers also remained high, and the company increased its workforce by strengthening hiring and training in these fields.」

「During the three months ended [the first quarter], the Group expanded the scope of work for IT engineers, a priority area, and worked to improve utilization by training employees and developing new business relationships.」

「Our group recognizes that supporting employees who work at customer companies, including through staffing, is an important challenge. National initiatives such as work-style reform are also important undertakings for our group. In addition to monitoring employees' long working hours and health and safety conditions and providing employee training, we actively engage with customer companies when deemed necessary to help create a better working environment for employees.」

「Our group recognizes that supporting individual engineers and skilled workers in improving their skills and creating a better workplace environment are important challenges, because people are at the center of our business. In addition to labor management at each location, we systematically provide support for obtaining qualifications and conduct guidance and training through specialized departments to improve skills. For engineers and skilled workers, we share objectives and encourage motivation by preparing and evaluating skills-improvement plans with the involvement of personnel from customer companies.」

「In addition to labor management at each location, the Group systematically provides support for obtaining qualifications and conducts skills development guidance and training through specialized departments. For engineers, it also shares objectives and encourages motivation by developing and evaluating skills-development plans together with personnel from client companies.」