FCE Awarded 'Stress Free Company' for 5 Consecutive Years

FCE Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Junetsu Ishikawa; Securities Code: 9564) has been certified as a 'Stress Free Company' for the fifth consecutive year under the 'Stress Free Company Award System' organized by HR Data Lab Co., Ltd. This award is given to companies that achieved a 'Total Health Risk' score of 90 or lower out of approximately 10,700 companies nationwide.

Additionally, the company was selected as a Motivation Company, an award for companies with high employee engagement, in the 'BMC2026' announced by Link and Motivation Inc. Furthermore, FCE has been selected for 14 consecutive years in the 'Great Place to Work' ranking conducted by Great Place to Work®, achieving both a 'rewarding work environment' and a 'low-stress environment'.

*BMC: Abbreviation for Best Motivation Company Award. An event organized by Link and Motivation that awards companies with high engagement levels and provides special lectures and exchanges among participants to discuss and disseminate the value of HR. *Employee engagement: An indicator of attachment to the company and passion for work.

The Essence of 'Work Engagement' and 'Stress Free' as FCE Sees It

FCE aims to develop human resources and organizations with GRIT (the ability to think independently, recover, and persevere) regardless of role or environment. That is, GRIT = 'Proactiveness' × 'Resilience' × 'Human Relationships'. The company believes that solving the following three issues is essential for employees to achieve high performance: - 'Not deciding on their own' → Goals feel like assignments and actions don't continue (lack of proactiveness) - 'Cannot recover from failure damage' → Actions stop due to rejection or scolding (lack of resilience) - 'Problems with organizational culture' → Lack of trust and isolation, low psychological safety leads to sluggish actions (lack of human relationships) These are common issues across all job types, including sales, back office, engineering, and management. FCE has practiced this philosophy in its own organizational development, fostering GRIT talent that works in any role: - Developing 'people who can decide for themselves' through The 7 Habits® Business Ownership training (proactiveness) - Developing 'people who can bounce back after setbacks' through Resilience Training Wresl® (resilience) - Along with that, creating 'human relationships' with high psychological safety This multiplication leads to 'work engagement' & 'stress free' and high-performance organizations.

Supportive Organizational Culture – Creating 'Human Relationships' with High Psychological Safety Under the culture of 'collective genius' where each individual synergizes for overall goals, the following systems and initiatives are in place: - 'Review (Consultation) System' where supervisors regularly meet with subordinates - 'Brother System' where slightly older seniors are appointed as 'brothers' for easy consultation - 'Life Plan Interview' where employees discuss career and life plans with supervisors - 'Hamukatsu' where randomly assigned groups of five share daily happy activities - 'Gourmet de MVP' where employees with excellent challenges are honored with dinner with executives - 'Mama Lunch' and 'Papa Lunch' to discuss work and childcare - Flexible work styles according to life stages (hybrid work and full flex-time system)

What is the Stress-Free Company Award System? The 'Stress Free Company' is an annual award system organized by the Stress Free Company Award Committee. It calculates 'Total Health Risk' based on stress check results using the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's 'Brief Job Stress Questionnaire'. Companies with low-stress workplace environments are recognized. 'Total Health Risk' consists of two elements: a numerical value representing stress factors calculated from workload and control over work in the target department, and a numerical value indicating workplace support from supervisors and colleagues. The award recognizes companies with particularly low 'Total Health Risk'.

[Recruitment Information] FCE is actively seeking members to create a future full of challenges! Career recruitment information: https://fce-group.jp/8628/ New graduates: https://recruit.fce-hd.co.jp/

FCE Co., Ltd. Established: April 21, 2017 Representative Director and President: Junetsu Ishikawa Securities Code: 9564 Headquarters: NS Building 10F, 2-4-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo Business: DX promotion, education and training, publishing URL: https://fce-hd.co.jp/

Under its purpose of 'Creating a future full of challenges', the company is committed to maximizing human capital, operating DX promotion and education and training businesses.

Products include 'RoboPad AI' (https://fce-pat.co.jp/), ranked #1 among approximately 7,300 products in 'Best Software in Japan 2023' (#2 among approximately 10,000 products in 2024), 'Smart Boarding' (https://smartboarding.net/), a flat-rate online education system; publication of the global bestseller 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' (over 50 million copies worldwide, 2.7 million in Japan) (https://fce-publishing.co.jp/); and 'AI OMNI AGENT' (https://www.fce-aiomniagent.com/), an AI platform that evolves corporate productivity. The company serves a wide range of clients from SMEs to large corporations, as well as local governments and educational institutions nationwide. *3: From ITreview Best Software in Japan 2023 *4: From ITreview Best Software in Japan 2024