Landscape Implements an In-House System to Predict and Recommend Overtime Hours in One-Minute Increments
— Achieving Fair and Accurate Overtime Reporting by Leveraging Work-Related Data —

Landscape Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Nami Fukutomi; hereinafter referred to as "Landscape") has implemented an in-house "Recommended Overtime System" and filed a patent for it. This system predicts appropriate working hours (overtime) for employees and recommends overtime durations in one-minute increments, thereby preventing the underreporting of working hours.

■ Patent Application Overview

■ Background
In recent years, the government has been promoting policies to reduce total annual working hours, leading to a trend of restricting total employee work time. This has created situations where employees feel compelled to report fewer hours than they actually worked. Furthermore, even when start and end times are accurately captured via time cards, discrepancies arise due to individual differences in how employees report time, such as breaks for smoking or waiting time while off-site that may or may not be included in working hours.

Consequently, this has led to unfair conditions among employees, where some report their actual working hours accurately, while others report fewer hours than they actually worked.

To address this, Landscape has adopted a perspective centered on the individual employee. We have implemented an in-house system that models work-related data—such as department, job title, and behavioral history—to recommend appropriate working hours (overtime) from the company to the employee, and we have filed a patent for this mechanism.

Moving forward, Landscape will continue to promote this system, which enables companies to recommend fair and accurate overtime hours to their employees, eliminating any sense of inequity.