Risk of shortages and delays in developing specialized personnel, and rising labor costs
First written in FY2022. 1 of 3 entries say "Reframed", first in FY2024. Latest entry: FY2025.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 34 of 109 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2025RestatedAnnual report
「The Group proposes, designs and constructs workplaces tailored to customers’ issues and needs, and recognizes that recruiting and developing highly specialized, skilled employees is necessary for these activities.」
It continues to identify the possibility that insufficient recruitment and development of specialized personnel needed to propose, design and construct workplaces, as well as rising personnel costs, may affect orders. - FY2024ReframedAnnual report
「The Group proposes, designs and constructs workplaces tailored to customers’ issues and needs, and recognizes that recruiting and developing highly specialized, skilled employees is necessary for these activities.」
The scope of the risk has expanded from the previous description that insufficient recruitment and development of specialized personnel would affect orders for designer offices to the risk of insufficient recruitment and development of personnel needed to propose, design and construct workplaces. - FY2022First statedAnnual report
「If the company is unable to recruit and develop such employees, if the costs of recruiting new employees or personnel expenses rise beyond its expectations, or if the number of orders for designer offices fails to increase as expected because personnel development does not progress as planned, its business and performance may be affected.」
Separately from measures to recruit and develop personnel, it explicitly identifies the risk that shortages of specialized personnel, rising personnel costs, and delays in training may affect orders and business performance.