Difficulty Recruiting Technologists and Risk of Talent Outflows
First written in FY2016. 13 of 25 entries say "Materialised", first in FY2017. Latest entry: FY2026.
Jtec moved to the "Worse" side of this theme in 2017, 8 years before the typical company in this theme (2025).
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 36 of 112 companies on the "Worse" side.
3 other companies' latest entry also says "Materialised".
- FY2026MaterialisedAnnual report
「売上高は計画比641百万円減（16.0％減）となりました。主な要因としては、派遣単価および稼働率は好調であったものの、人手不足で人員獲得競争は激しく、想定していた人員数を充分には確保できなかった結果であります。」
人手不足・人員獲得競争により想定人員を十分に確保できず、売上高が計画比16.0％減となる業績影響が実際に発生した。 - FY2026-H1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Under these conditions, staffing rates and utilization for technologists, the Group’s term for engineers with both advanced technical skills and strong interpersonal qualities, remained high. However, competition for technical talent remained extremely fierce, and the Group was unable to promptly fill personnel shortages, particularly at its subsidiaries.」
While staffing rates and utilization remained high, competition for technical talent continued to be extremely fierce, and the Group states that it was unable to promptly resolve personnel shortages, particularly at its subsidiaries. Personnel shortages continued to constrain business operations. - FY2025MaterialisedAnnual report
「Revenue was ¥356 million below plan, a decline of 9.5%. The main factors were that, although staffing rates and utilization were strong, intense competition for personnel amid labor shortages meant that the Group was unable to secure sufficient staff as planned.」
The Group states that it was unable to secure sufficient staff as planned due to labor shortages and intensifying competition for personnel, resulting in an actual business impact in the form of revenue falling short of plan. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, labor shortages are being reported across many industries. In manufacturing, which includes many of the Group’s major customers, demand for highly skilled technical personnel is strong, and demand for “technologists” in the Group’s core technical talent leasing business, combining advanced technical skills with strong interpersonal qualities, remains stable.」
The Group reports labor shortages and strong demand for technical talent, while explicitly stating that there were no material changes to business and other risks. - FY2024WorsenedAnnual report
「As securing talent within the industry becomes increasingly difficult and the Group is unable to increase headcount as planned, the utilization rate of the outstanding engineers the Group calls “technologists,” who excel in both technical expertise and personal qualities, remains high.」
The Group explicitly identifies increasingly intense competition for talent and its inability to increase headcount as planned as business conditions for the year. - FY2024-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Against this backdrop, labor shortages continue across many industries. In particular, demand from client companies remains strong in the Group’s core technical talent leasing business, including staffing and contracting, while competition among industry peers involved in technical staffing and related services is also clearly intensifying, particularly over securing and developing personnel.」
The Group continues to recognize that, while demand from client companies is strong, competition among industry peers to secure and develop technical talent is clearly intensifying. No substantive change from the previous quarter is disclosed. - FY2024-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Labor shortages persist across many industries, particularly in staffing and contracting. In the Group’s core technical talent leasing business, demand from client companies is especially strong, while competition among industry peers involved in technical staffing and related services is also clearly intensifying, particularly over securing and developing personnel.」
While customer demand for the core business is strong, competition among industry peers to secure and develop technical talent is described as clearly intensifying, highlighting the severity of hiring and personnel acquisition risks. The labor shortage and intensifying competition described above are presented as actual business conditions. - FY2022MaterialisedAnnual report
「Although the Group pursued the same efforts in the following year, differences from its assumptions, including trends among job seekers, meant that it did not achieve the same number of hires.」
The Group states that it aimed to hire the same number of people as in the previous year but did not achieve this, indicating that failure to meet the hiring plan actually occurred. - FY2021RestatedAnnual report
「As the recruitment function, the Group is focusing on securing talented personnel and training employees by providing thorough, attentive follow-up for students wishing to join the Group and mid-career technologists, as well as training young technologists with no prior design experience. However, if the Group is unable to secure the planned number of technologists, or if their numbers decline significantly due to personnel outflows, this could affect the Group’s business performance.」
While continuing recruitment follow-up and training for inexperienced personnel, the Group continues to disclose the risk of an impact on business performance from failure to meet the hiring plan and personnel outflows. - FY2020MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, competition for technical talent remained extremely fierce, and the Group continued to face difficulty securing the planned number of technologists. Personnel shortages left it unable to fully meet customer needs, resulting in sluggish sales growth.」
Failure to meet the hiring plan and personnel shortages continued, with the resulting impact on business performance, namely insufficient responsiveness to customer needs and sluggish sales growth, explicitly identified in the full-year results. - FY2020-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, as competition for technical personnel intensified, recruiting the planned number of technologists became extremely difficult, leaving the Company unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
Failure to meet the hiring plan and insufficient project capacity due to personnel shortages continued. As in the previous quarter, the Group strongly described the difficulty of hiring. - FY2020-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, as competition for technical personnel intensified, recruiting the planned number of technologists became extremely difficult, leaving the Company unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
While failure to meet the hiring plan and insufficient project capacity due to personnel shortages continued, the Group described the difficulty of hiring in stronger terms than before as “extremely difficult.” - FY2020-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, as competition for technical personnel intensified, securing the planned number of technologists remained difficult, leaving the Company unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
The Group reports that it was difficult to secure the planned number of technologists and that personnel shortages resulted in insufficient capacity to respond to projects in the current quarter. It also states that there were no material changes to business and other risks. - FY2019-Q3RestatedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, competition for technical personnel was extremely intense, making it difficult to secure the planned number of technologists and leaving the Company unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
As in the previous quarter, the Group found it difficult to secure the planned number of technologists, and insufficient staffing led to a lack of capacity to respond to projects. The report also states that there were no material changes to business and other risks, so the wording of the risk itself was reconfirmed. - FY2019-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, competition for technical personnel was extremely intense, making it difficult to secure the planned number of technologists and leaving the Company unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
The Group states that failure to meet the hiring plan and insufficient project capacity due to personnel shortages continued, describing competition for technical talent as “extremely fierce,” in stronger terms than before. - FY2019-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, although we have worked to strengthen new recruitment amid intensifying competition for technical talent, securing the planned number of technologists remained difficult, and we were unable to respond fully to projects because of the shortage of personnel.」
Amid continuing competition for technical talent, the Group was unable to secure the planned number of technologists, and insufficient staffing prevented it from fully responding to projects in the current quarter. - FY2018-Q3MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, as competition for technical personnel intensified, the Company worked to strengthen new graduate recruitment, but securing the planned number of technologists remained difficult, leaving it unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
Failure to meet the technologist hiring plan and personnel shortages continued, and the Group was actually unable to fully respond to projects in the third quarter. - FY2018-Q2MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, as competition for technical personnel intensified, the Company worked to strengthen new graduate recruitment, but securing the planned number of technologists remained difficult, leaving it unable to handle all projects because of personnel shortages.」
Failure to meet the technologist hiring plan and personnel shortages continued, and the Group was actually unable to fully respond to projects in the current quarter. - FY2018-Q1MaterialisedAnnual report
「Meanwhile, although we have worked to strengthen new recruitment amid intensifying competition for technical talent, securing the planned number of technologists remained difficult, and we were unable to respond fully to projects because of the shortage of personnel.」
As in the previous fiscal year, the Group found it difficult to secure the planned number of technologists, and a situation in which it could not fully respond to projects due to personnel shortages also occurred in the current quarter. - FY2017MaterialisedAnnual report
「The Group faced a situation in which it was unable to secure the planned number of technologists and could not fully respond to projects because of personnel shortages.」
The Group reports that failure to meet its hiring plan and personnel shortages actually occurred, leaving it unable to fully respond to projects. - FY2016First statedAnnual report
「If we are unable to secure technologists as planned, or if a substantial decline in the number of technologists occurs because of employee attrition, this could affect the Group’s business performance.」
Failure to meet recruitment plans and a decline in the number of technology professionals due to attrition are identified as risks to business performance.