Risk of Difficulty Securing and Retaining R&D Personnel and Other Talent
First written in FY2020. 2 of 4 entries say "Reframed", first in FY2021. Latest entry: FY2024.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 34 of 109 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2024MitigatedAnnual report
「To address this issue, we are focusing on recruiting global talent, specialists such as PhD holders and immediately deployable personnel through diverse recruitment activities, including internships and comeback hiring. We are also working to mitigate the impact on the business by improving compensation and benefits to prevent the loss of personnel, establishing flexible work systems, introducing a dual-track personnel system that leverages employees' strengths, implementing an internal open recruitment system to support autonomous career development and securing personnel with extensive experience and skills through a retirement age of 65.」
Measures to address the risks of securing and retaining personnel have expanded to include internships, return-to-work recruitment, improved compensation, flexible working arrangements, a dual-track personnel system, internal job postings and a retirement age of 65. - FY2023ReframedAnnual report
「Through diverse recruitment activities, the company is focusing on hiring global talent, specialists including PhD holders and immediately deployable personnel. It is also working to mitigate the impact on its business by improving compensation and benefits to prevent employee attrition, establishing flexible work systems, implementing an internal open-recruitment system to support autonomous career development, and strengthening global talent management to redeploy and utilize personnel.」
Measures to address the risk of securing and retaining research and development personnel have been developed into Group-wide initiatives, including global recruitment, doctoral and immediately deployable talent, improved compensation, flexible working arrangements, internal recruitment and talent management. - FY2021ReframedAnnual report
「The company is focusing on global recruitment and hiring immediately deployable personnel, while working to mitigate the impact on its business by improving compensation and benefits to prevent employee attrition, promoting work-style reforms, and strengthening global talent management to redeploy and utilize internal personnel.」
The scope of the risk assessment expanded from risks centered on securing and retaining research and development personnel to group-wide human resources risks, including global recruitment, improved compensation and benefits, work-style reforms, redeployment and global talent management. - FY2020First statedAnnual report
「In Japan, where many of our R&D functions are located, declining birthrates and an aging population and the shrinking working-age population may make it difficult to meet internal demand for talent. Although our employee retention rate is stable, employee turnover could increase if labor mobility in Japan accelerates.」
The risk of difficulty securing and retaining R&D and other talent amid demographic change, a shrinking workforce, and greater labor mobility was first stated explicitly.