Payroll Acquires 'Eruboshi Certification (3 Stars)' as a Company Promoting Women's Active Roles

Payroll Inc. (Headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director President CEO: Tetsuya Yuasa; hereinafter: Payroll), which provides the payroll service "HR BPaaS," announced that it has acquired the highest '3-star' certification under the 'Eruboshi Certification' system based on the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace.

The 'Eruboshi Certification' is a system where the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare certifies companies with excellent initiatives in promoting women's active roles. There are three stages of certification, and Payroll met all five criteria: recruitment, continued employment, work-life balance (working hours), female manager ratio, and diverse career paths, thereby acquiring the 'Eruboshi Certification (3 Stars)'.

Payroll's Initiatives

• Introduction of Femtech (products and services that solve women's health issues with technology) welfare services aimed at promoting the active roles of female employees.
• Expansion of work styles, such as shortened working hours and telecommuting.
• Increase in the ratio of female managers (March 2025: 34.8% → March 2026: 37.2%).
• Mental health care training by job type.
• Development of online seminar content related to promoting the active roles of female employees.

Payroll will continue to promote the appointment of female managers and strive to create an organization where each employee can demonstrate their abilities through work style reforms and workplace environment improvements.

About Payroll Inc.

Established on April 1, 1989. Since its founding, the company has primarily provided BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) services for payroll operations to major corporations, handling payroll for 257 companies and 1.14 million people (as of March 2026). Payroll's general-purpose payroll service "HR BPaaS" is an integrated service of proprietary cloud HR payroll software and payroll BPO. It is characterized by its high flexibility and scalability, as it accommodates the unique and complex payroll logic of each client while promoting the standardization of common tasks across all clients.

In Japan, where the working population is declining, Payroll aims to become a soft infrastructure company that handles highly specialized operational tasks for HR departments, supporting an environment where HR departments can focus on more strategic tasks.