Deepening Labor Shortages Amid Improvements in the Employment Environment
First written in FY2018-Q2. . Latest entry: FY2026.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 27 of 104 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2026Update: human capital metrics and systems to address labor shortagesAnnual report
「Labor shortages, talent shortages, delays in work-style reform, delays in developing successors, and declining organizational communication」
Labor shortages were organized as a management-foundation risk involving more flexible recruitment, improvements to personnel and labor systems and training systems, promotion of women, successor development, and the use of digital tools. - FY2025Updated labor-shortage measures as human capital indicatorsAnnual report
「Under the strengthening of its fundamentals and foundations, the Company will address labor shortages, review its personnel and labor systems, and improve its training framework.」
Measures to address labor shortages expanded beyond improvements to personnel and labor systems and the training framework to include human capital initiatives and indicator disclosures covering women in management, employment of people with disabilities and extension of the retirement age. - FY2023Updated labor shortages as an issue to be addressed in the long-term planAnnual report
「Under the strengthening of its fundamentals and foundations, the Company will address labor shortages, review its personnel and labor systems, and improve its training framework.」
As labor shortages have come to be disclosed as a structural reality, measures to address them were presented as an issue in strengthening the foundations of the long-term management plan. - FY2018Update to employment-environment dataAnnual report
「The 2017 average active job-openings-to-applicants ratio rose 0.14 points year on year to 1.50, its highest level in 44 years, and the employment environment improved substantially, while labor shortages became a serious problem,」
The full-year data were updated to show that the active job-openings-to-applicants ratio rose 0.14 points year on year to 1.50, its highest level in 44 years, continuing to indicate the growing severity of labor shortages. - FY2018-Q3Update to employment-environment dataAnnual report
「The employment environment improved substantially, with the October active job-openings-to-applicants ratio also at its highest level in 43 years and 9 months, while labor shortages have become a serious problem,」
The disclosure was updated from "the highest level in 43 years" as of July to "the highest level in 43 years and 9 months" as of October, continuing to indicate the growing severity of labor shortages. - FY2018-Q2First statedAnnual report
「The employment environment improved substantially, with the July active job-openings-to-applicants ratio also at its highest level in 43 years, to the point that labor shortages have become a serious problem,」
The structural reality of labor shortages becoming a serious problem was first disclosed against a backdrop of the high active job-openings-to-applicants ratio and an improved employment environment.