Landscape Implements In-House System to Predict and Recommend Overtime in One-Minute Increments
- Achieving Fair and Accurate Overtime Reporting by Utilizing Employment-Related Data -

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

■ Patent Application Overview

■ Background
In recent years, the government has implemented policies to reduce total annual working hours, leading to a trend of limiting 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, actual work time can be ambiguous due to factors like smoking breaks or waiting time while off-site. Whether such time should be included in reported work hours varies from person to person.

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

To address this, Landscape has adopted an internal system that takes the employee's perspective. By modeling work-related data—such as department, job title, and activity history—the system recommends appropriate working hours (overtime) from the company side. We have filed a patent for this mechanism.

Landscape will continue to promote this system to ensure that companies can recommend fair and appropriate overtime hours to their employees.