Securing and Developing Diverse Talent and Establishing Flexible Working Arrangements

「In April 2026, amid these circumstances, the Company introduced and began operating a new personnel system aimed at establishing fair evaluation and wage systems based on each employee's capabilities and securing younger employees. Specifically, it abolished age-based pay and removed seniority-based elements to create a fair wage system with differentiated pay based on capabilities.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group simultaneously advanced various measures aimed at becoming a corporate group capable of growing in any environment, including efforts to reduce costs, training and education to develop and retain personnel for sustainable growth, and improvements in compensation and working conditions.」

「Under this policy, the Company is developing education infrastructure using IT and actively pursuing reforms to its personnel systems to ensure fair evaluation and treatment that better reflect effort and results, through discussions with sub-members selected from each business division, department and office and the collection of their views, while core members consisting mainly of a management consulting firm, officers, Human Resources personnel and the union chairperson take the lead. It is also actively advancing senior management training for general managers and management training for section managers conducted by specialist external instructors, including those from management consulting and human resources firms, and is developing the internal environment through the introduction of education and evaluation systems that encourage employees to improve their capabilities.」

「The Company seeks to secure diverse talent through a year-round hiring policy without regard to age, gender or nationality. Many of the executives and employees of its overseas subsidiaries are locally hired.」