Ingage Wins Encouragement Award in the Small and Mid-Sized Enterprise Category at Career Ownership Management AWARD 2026

Ingage Inc. (Head office: Osaka City, Osaka; President and Representative Director: Tetsuya Wada), provider of the communication platform “Re:lation,” announced that it has received the Encouragement Award in the small and mid-sized enterprise category at the “Career Ownership Management AWARD 2026,” for which Persol Career Co., Ltd. serves as the executive committee secretariat. The company was recognized for its distinctive initiatives in a rapidly growing startup environment, where each employee proactively defines their role and connects individual passion to business growth. The Career Ownership Management AWARD recognizes companies that promote “new relationships between individuals and companies” by practicing three perspectives of career ownership management: making career ownership talent visible, increasing such talent, and connecting it with management and business. The award aims to introduce outstanding practices for maximizing human capital to society. The judging committee is chaired by Kunio Ito, Director of the CFO Education and Research Center at Hitotsubashi University. Other judges include experts working on human capital maximization and HR transformation, Professor Kennosuke Tanaka of Hosei University’s Faculty and Graduate School of Career Design, who also chairs the award’s executive committee, and the secretariat of the Career Ownership and Future of Work Consortium. Ingage promotes career ownership through the following initiatives. First, it redefines roles through daily dialogue. The company creates opportunities for employees to verbalize medium- to long-term career aspirations that are difficult to capture through everyday communication, and it quickly implements flexible role adjustments as management decisions while respecting individual preferences. Second, it fosters company-wide information sharing and a culture of praise. Ingage continues to publish through its official note account and operates a system in which all employees, including executives, immediately respond to and praise posts. This has built a foundation for recognizing one another’s value across departments. Third, it creates results through synergy between the organization and individuals. As employee initiative has increased, so have voluntary proposals for business improvement and challenges in unfamiliar areas. Strengthened external communication has also had a positive impact on recruitment, increasing direct applications and reducing hiring costs, thereby creating direct impact that supports business growth. In its review comments, the executive committee secretariat highly evaluated Ingage’s foundation of continuous one-on-one meetings held every two weeks, combined with semiannual WCM surveys that verbalize Will, Can, and Must, enabling a high-quality connection between individual intentions and organizational expectations. It also noted the effectiveness of combining note operations with praise on Slack to cultivate a company-wide culture where self-disclosure and mutual recognition circulate. These efforts have led to outcomes such as increased proactive challenges and growth in direct applications. The committee expressed expectations that Ingage will further refine this foundation of dialogue and communication, and more strongly connect individual passion to continuous business growth. Going forward, Ingage will continue accelerating the virtuous cycle of individual growth, organizational development, and increased value delivered to customers. By pursuing an environment where each employee can shine and thrive proactively, the company aims to contribute to the realization of a richer communication society. Ingage Inc. is located at 1-14-8 Shibata, Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka. Its business includes the development and provision of cloud services and the development and provision of the communication platform “Re:lation.” Corporate website: https://ingage.co.jp. For inquiries regarding this release, contact Nishizawa, Public Relations, Ingage Inc. TEL: 050-3116-8373, E-mail: pr@ingage.jp.