With the introduction of flexible holidays, the number of annual holidays increased to 145, and when changed to weekly holidays, it became a “weekly holiday system of about 3 days off” of about 2.8 days. The annual prescribed working hours (1800 hours) are maintained by changing the prescribed working hours per day from 7 hours 30 minutes to 8 hours, and there are no changes in salary amounts.
Regarding flexible holidays, Mr. Hidetoshi Emana, Director of the Personnel and Personnel Management Office at the Recruit Staff Management Headquarters, said, “When integrating Recruit companies, we were discussing management policies and how to create systems aimed at them. Remote work, which assumes that people will not come to work, was also introduced company-wide, but when such work styles progressed further, it is a system that looks ahead about 10 years ahead,” he explains.
When I hear that holidays have increased, holiday attendance has decreased, total annual working hours have been shortened, and paid leave digestion rate has also improved, what is worrisome is productivity. According to Mr. Chika Goda of Recruit Public Relations, it seems that they have created a system where work can proceed without hindrance even if someone takes a break, by having 2 or more people in charge of one project, but then their own work will increase.
The three-day workweek system is often discussed in conjunction with productivity and salary systems...

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