Recruitment and Retention of Specialized Personnel and Employee Development

「In terms of costs, while appropriately controlling expenses such as rising food ingredient prices and utility costs, we are expanding personnel expenses and recruitment costs associated with replenishing nursing care staff, viewing them as investments in the future needed to maintain and enhance high-quality nursing care services.」

「Against this backdrop, we are making core investments, including expanding the scope of ICT services for the beauty industry, enhancing application software functions and recruiting experienced personnel, while working to build the foundation for sustainable growth.」

「Against this backdrop, we are making core investments, including expanding our beauty ICT services, enhancing the functionality of our proprietary application software as our digital transformation systems are strengthened, and recruiting experienced personnel, while working to build the foundation for sustainable growth.」

「Specifically, under the theme of human resources utilisation, we are implementing improvements to the compensation structure linked to performance gains from education and training and human resources evaluations, including goal management and behavioural assessments. Under the theme of improving the work environment, we will implement measures including expanding remote work, introducing a system of intervals between shifts, and enhancing mental health and whistleblower reporting systems.」

「Against this backdrop, we are advancing various measures, including expanding ICT services for beauty salons and our business scope, enhancing the functionality of our proprietary application software as our digital transformation systems are strengthened, and recruiting experienced personnel who can contribute immediately, while working to build the foundation for sustainable growth.」

「We view work-style reform as a theme that leads to higher productivity and expect it to benefit employee motivation, recruitment and employee retention. From the standpoint and perspective of working people, we are therefore working to improve the work environment and introduce related systems.」

「Against this backdrop, we are recruiting experienced personnel who can contribute immediately to expand ICT services for beauty salons, grow our business and enhance customer support functions, while working to build the foundation for growth.」

「Our Group considers human resources to be the source of the added value we provide to customers and an indispensable presence supporting the Group's development, as well as a key management resource that determines our competitive advantage. In line with our business strategy, we will promote ongoing recruitment of new graduates and experienced personnel, while focusing on implementing human resources development programmes and developing the next generation of personnel so that each employee can demonstrate their capabilities.」

「Accordingly, our policy is to recruit personnel by strengthening recruitment activities and to advance employee education and development.」

「Accordingly, our policy is to recruit personnel by strengthening recruitment activities and to advance employee education and development.」

「This demonstrates that the company operates its facilities sustainably through operational efficiency and processes supported by a high-quality work environment, including the introduction of a 3-day weekend system and higher paid-leave utilisation.」

「From the second half of the current fiscal year, the fiscal year ending October 2017, we established a human resources and recruitment department and began recruiting experienced and new graduates. However, recruitment of systems engineers, particularly network engineers, remains uncertain as competition has intensified. We have also begun developing an education programme to train current employees as specialists. In addition, we will overhaul the current personnel system and promote the development of an organisation that appoints capable young personnel to key roles.」

「We are expanding staffing levels at our sales offices and nursing care facilities through ongoing recruitment. As one measure, we are improving the work environment at the nursing care facilities by providing refresh leave, including 5 consecutive days of leave comprising paid annual leave. We will also enhance training programmes, including external training tailored to each position and level, to develop the personnel required to support our Group's business concept.」