Strengthening Human Capital, Diversity, and Employee Engagement

「Headcount increased, mainly among curators, resulting in higher personnel expenses」

「In addition, during the fiscal year, the company identified three priority issues in human capital management for realizing its medium-term management plan: improving productivity; clarifying and embedding standards for work values and practices; and strengthening the consistency and linkage of evaluation and compensation systems. It is promoting initiatives including AI adoption, the creation of behavioral guidelines, and a new evaluation system, and plans to begin embedding them in 2026, thereby fostering a cycle of individual and company growth required to realize its vision.」

「The company views its people as its most important management capital for continuously enhancing corporate value based on its vision and mission. Accordingly, it has established the Makuake Recruitment Policy for hiring, the Makuake Standard governing each employee's conduct after joining the company, and the Makuake HR Policy, which sets out the company's policy for providing opportunities to individual employees, all with a view to realizing its vision. Specifically, the company focuses on internal knowledge sharing and employee development, emphasizes diversity that makes use of each individual's strengths regardless of gender, nationality, or values, and works to create a comfortable working environment, including shorter working hours and remote work. To create an environment in which employees feel attached to the company and find purpose in their work, the company conducts engagement surveys once a month in a simplified format and once every six months in a detailed format, visualizes the status of teams and individual employees, and works to build a better organization.」