Landscape Introduces an In-House System to Predict and Recommend Overtime Hours in One-Minute Increments
~Achieving Fair and Accurate Overtime Reporting by Utilizing 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 hours to them in one-minute increments, thereby preventing the underreporting of working hours.

■ Overview of Patent Application

■ Background
In recent years, government policies aimed at reducing total annual working hours have led to a trend of limiting total employee work hours. This has created situations where employees feel compelled to report fewer hours than they actually worked. Furthermore, even when employee start and end times are accurately tracked via time cards, actual working hours can be ambiguous due to factors such as smoking breaks or waiting times during off-site tasks that may not be considered part of official working hours. Whether such time should be included in reported working hours varies from person to person.

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

In response, Landscape has adopted an internal system that prioritizes the perspective of the individual employee. By modeling work-related data—such as department, job title, and behavioral history—the system recommends appropriate working hours (overtime) from the company's perspective, and we have filed a patent for this mechanism.

Landscape will continue to promote this system to ensure that companies can recommend appropriate overtime hours to their employees, thereby eliminating feelings of inequity.