Stronger Corporate Hiring Appetite and Increased Demand for Human Resources Amid the Economic Recovery
First written in FY2017-Q2. 17 of 28 entries say "Restated". Latest entry: 2026-08-07.
Human Holdings moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2020, the same year as the typical company in this theme.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2020: 5 of 12 companies on the "Worse" side.
5 other companies' latest entry also says "Restated".
- 2026-08-07RestatedEarnings
「Amid continuing labor shortages at companies caused by a decline in Japan's working-age population and progressing population aging, workers' career orientation is rising as work styles and values diversify, and demand for job openings remains firm.」
The company reconfirms that demand for job openings remains firm and that labor shortages and rising career orientation continue. - FY2026ReframedAnnual report
「For companies, securing and developing domestic personnel, utilizing overseas personnel and improving productivity through DX have become challenges.」
Companies' demand for human resources is organized as a set of challenges that includes not only securing and developing human resources domestically, but also utilizing human resources from overseas and improving productivity through DX. - FY2026-H1ReframedAnnual report
「In the human resources business, workers' career orientation is strengthening as ways of working and values diversify. In addition to the decline in the domestic working-age population, the aging population has led to a high effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio. For companies, securing and developing human resources domestically, utilizing human resources from overseas and improving productivity through DX are challenges.」
The description of demand for human resources has expanded beyond population decline and labor shortages to include workers' career orientation, the high effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio, and companies' challenges relating to developing human resources domestically, utilizing human resources from overseas and promoting DX. - FY2025ReframedAnnual report
「Against a backdrop of labor shortages resulting from Japan's structural population decline, companies' need to improve productivity is increasing. The business environment is on a recovery path, with a particular need to secure and develop highly specialized human resources and promote DX.」
The description of companies' hiring demand has become more specific, moving from labor shortages generally to demand for securing and developing specialized human resources and improving productivity through DX. - FY2025-H1ReframedAnnual report
「As the domestic working-age population declines, labor shortages at companies are becoming more severe, with shortages of human resources, particularly in the IT sector, becoming an urgent issue.」
The previous recognition of expanding demand for human resources and labor shortages has been developed into a more specific description of tight supply and demand, identifying shortages in the IT sector as an especially urgent issue. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding our Group is such that, in the human resources services business, demand for personnel driven by labor shortages is expanding while the domestic labor force continues to decline. As forms of personnel utilization, ways of working and workers' values diversify, the growing momentum for investment in people is creating demand for personnel development through recurrent education and reskilling.」
Expanding demand for human resources resulting from labor shortages amid a declining working-age population, as well as demand for human resource development through recurrent education and reskilling, have been reaffirmed. - FY2024-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding the Group, including the human resources business, is characterized by expanding demand for human resources resulting from labor shortages, while the domestic working-age population continues to decline.」
The business environment is again recognized as one in which demand for human resources is expanding as a result of labor shortages amid a declining working-age population. - FY2024-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding our Group is such that, in the human resources services business, demand for personnel driven by labor shortages is expanding while the domestic labor force continues to decline. As forms of personnel utilization, ways of working and workers' values diversify, the growing momentum for investment in people is creating demand for personnel development through recurrent education and reskilling.」
The description has expanded from the previous focus on economic recovery and hiring appetite to include growing demand resulting from labor shortages amid a declining working-age population, as well as demand for investment in people and reskilling. - FY2023-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding the Group, including the human resources industry, is characterized by increasing demand for human resources despite Japan's declining population. As the ways in which human resources are utilized and attitudes toward work diversify, companies are required to use digital technology to provide workers with optimal ways of working. Demand for IT human resources in Japan remains strong, and the use of human resources from overseas is expected to help address shortages.」
Demand for human resources amid Japan's declining population, strong demand for IT human resources and expectations for the use of human resources from overseas have been reaffirmed. - FY2023-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding the Group, including the human resources industry, is characterized by increasing demand for human resources despite Japan's declining population. As the ways in which human resources are utilized and attitudes toward work diversify, companies are required to use digital technology to provide workers with optimal ways of working. Demand for IT human resources in Japan remains strong, and the use of human resources from overseas is expected to help address shortages. In addition, momentum for investment in human capital is increasing, creating demand for higher value-added human resources services, including training-oriented staffing.」
Demand for human resources amid Japan's declining population, strong demand for IT human resources, the use of human resources from overseas, investment in human capital and demand for training-oriented staffing have been reaffirmed. - FY2023-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「Even as Japan's population declines, demand for human resources is increasing. As the ways in which human resources are utilized and attitudes toward work diversify, companies are required to use digital technology to provide workers with optimal ways of working.」
The recognition of the business environment has shifted from the most recent description of a buyer's market during the COVID-19 pandemic to a situation in which demand for human resources is increasing despite Japan's declining population, with digital technology being used to optimize ways of working. - FY2022-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「The business environment surrounding the Group, including the human resources industry, has been affected by the rapid change in the employment environment from a seller's market to a buyer's market due to COVID-19, in addition to」
The recognition that the employment environment has changed rapidly from a seller's market to a buyer's market continues to be described as part of the operating environment for the human resources business. - FY2022-Q1ReframedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, in addition to the employment environment changing rapidly from a seller's market to a buyer's market due to the impact of COVID-19,」
The focus has shifted from the previous view centered on strong hiring appetite and demand for human resources to the view that the employment environment has changed rapidly from a seller's market to a buyer's market. - FY2021-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, the employment environment remains challenging as the effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio continues to trend downward due to the impact of COVID-19, while restrictions on entry into Japan have made it difficult to secure human resources from overseas.」
The decline in the effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio and the difficulty of securing human resources from overseas due to COVID-19 have continued, reaffirming the recognition that the employment environment remains challenging. - FY2021-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, the employment environment has deteriorated rapidly as the effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio declined due to the spread of COVID-19, while restrictions on entry into Japan have made it difficult to secure human resources from overseas.」
In addition to the previously strong demand for human resources and labor shortages, the effective job-offers-to-applicants ratio declined due to COVID-19, and the employment environment is described as having deteriorated rapidly. - FY2020WorsenedAnnual report
「In the human resources business, demand for human resources is expected to decline due to the impact of COVID-19. Even under these conditions, measures are required to secure and develop human resources and facilitate their mobility, while reliably capturing demand for human resources that remain necessary and preparing to respond to the resumption of corporate activity after the pandemic subsides.」
In addition to the previously recognized strong demand against a backdrop of the declining working-age population, it is stated that demand for human resources is expected to decline due to COVID-19. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the staffing business, demand for human resources remained strong against a backdrop of labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, but revenue declined due in part to the impact of fewer operating days than in the same period of the previous year because of an extended holiday period during the period.」
The strong demand for human resources against a backdrop of the declining working-age population is reaffirmed, while the decline in operating days due to the extended holiday period is identified as having affected staffing revenue. - FY2020-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the staffing business, demand for human resources remained strong against a backdrop of labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, but revenue declined due in part to the impact of fewer operating days than in the same period of the previous year because of an extended holiday period during the period.」
The strong demand for human resources against a backdrop of the declining working-age population is reaffirmed, while the decline in operating days due to the extended holiday period is identified as having affected staffing revenue. - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In the staffing business, demand for human resources remained strong against a backdrop of labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, but revenue declined due in part to the impact of fewer operating days than in the same period of the previous year because of an extended holiday period during the period.」
The strong demand for human resources against a backdrop of the declining domestic working-age population is reaffirmed, while the decline in operating days due to the extended holiday period is identified as having affected revenue. - FY2019RestatedAnnual report
「Demand for human resources, driven by labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, remains strong, and demand from client companies has remained firm.」
Strong demand for human resources and firm demand from client companies against a backdrop of a declining working-age population have been reaffirmed. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Demand for human resources, driven by labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, remains strong, and demand from client companies has remained firm.」
Demand for human resources and firm demand from client companies against a backdrop of a declining working-age population have been reaffirmed. - FY2019-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「Demand for human resources, driven by labor shortages resulting from the decline in the domestic working-age population, remains strong, and demand from client companies has remained firm.」
The strong demand for human resources and firm client demand against a backdrop of a declining working-age population have been reaffirmed. - FY2019-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「In the human resources services industry, the increase in demand for personnel, driven by improved corporate earnings and the declining labor force, has outpaced supply, making labor shortages a major management issue across a wide range of industries.」
The supply of human resources has failed to keep pace with increasing demand, and the resulting labor shortage is described more explicitly as a major management challenge across a broad range of industries. - FY2018-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Although the working-age population is expected to decline in the future, companies' appetite for hiring human resources remains strong.」
The business environment is again recognized as one in which companies have a strong hiring appetite, on the assumption that the working-age population will decline in the future. - FY2018-Q2RestatedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, demand for human resources has remained on a recovery path, but」
The business environment is again recognized as one in which demand for human resources is on a recovery path. - FY2017RestatedAnnual report
「As the economy recovers, companies' hiring appetite remains strong and demand for human resources is increasing.」
The increase in companies' hiring appetite and demand for human resources against a backdrop of economic recovery is reiterated. - FY2017-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, companies' hiring appetite remains strong as the economy recovers, and demand for human resources is increasing.」
The strong hiring appetite and increasing demand for human resources resulting from the economic recovery are reiterated. - FY2017-Q2First statedAnnual report
「In the human resources industry, companies' hiring appetite remains strong as the economy recovers, and demand for human resources is increasing.」
The current business environment is described as one in which companies have a strong hiring appetite and demand for human resources is increasing against a backdrop of economic recovery.