Securing Diverse Talent and Developing Flexible Working Arrangements and the Workplace Environment

「Specifically, the company is continuously implementing initiatives to secure diverse talent, including actively appointing female employees as interviewers for recruitment and revising recruitment methods as appropriate based on annual hiring results; operating working arrangements suited to diverse work styles, such as a reduced-hours work system and a flexible full-time system within the prescribed monthly working hours; considering further system design, including a flextime system; addressing long working hours by reporting overtime hours to the monthly management meeting; and improving the employment and internal working environment as a whole by identifying and correcting risks arising from corporate culture and harassment through an annual survey of all employees.」