Risk of shortages and retention of highly skilled personnel

「In addition, the Group is working to improve operational productivity and optimise human-resource allocation through the use of generative AI. Depending on the progress of these efforts, it may review its policy on recruiting personnel externally.」

「Accordingly, to recruit and develop human resources based on its management strategy, the Group conducts graduate recruitment, including potential hires such as new graduates and second-career graduates, from a medium- to long-term perspective, as well as experienced-hire recruitment, including mid-career recruitment of immediately effective personnel. It also implements various personnel-development measures, including enhancing training and programmes so that employees can acquire more advanced skills.」

「In addition, the Group is promoting workforce and work-style diversity and making human capital more visible by supporting the participation of diverse personnel, including women, senior employees, foreign nationals and people with disabilities; developing a work environment through personnel systems and technology that enable flexible working arrangements; establishing intrapersonal diversity among officers and employees through the definition of ROLES (roles in performing duties); and using the resulting data to promote personnel mobility.」

「Accordingly, to recruit and develop human resources, the Group conducts graduate recruitment from a medium- to long-term perspective and mid-career recruitment of immediately effective personnel, and implements various personnel-development measures, including enhancing training and programmes so that employees can acquire more advanced skills. In addition, it is promoting workforce diversity through measures supporting the participation of women and senior employees and establishing intrapersonal diversity among officers and employees through ROLES (roles in performing duties).」

「Competition to secure IT personnel is intensifying due to stronger international competition, a declining working-age population resulting from the rapid decline in the birth rate and ageing population, and the advance of digital transformation. Industrial structures and the business environment are also changing significantly, making it a major issue to secure high-value-added personnel capable not only of applying technical skills but also of generating sustained innovation and addressing increasingly diverse customer needs.」

「Securing highly skilled personnel has become a major issue in response to intensifying global competition and the rapid shortage of human resources resulting from the declining birth rate and ageing population. In addition to technical capabilities, it is essential to strengthen the Group’s ability to generate sustained innovation and its human-resource capabilities to address increasingly diverse customer needs as industrial structures and the business environment change.」

「The shortage of highly skilled personnel in the information-services market has become a major issue. If the Group is unable to secure the highly skilled personnel it requires, its ability to maintain its technological advantage could be affected.」