Chapter 23 JapanThe Quest of Pasona for Employees’ Work-Life Balance: Relocation of Headquarters from Tokyo to a Remote Island
Azusa Ebisuya, Tomoki Sekiguchi, and Gayan Prasad Hettiarachchi
Case Synopsis
This case study introduces Pasona Group Inc. (hereafter referred to as Pasona), which is making courageous attempts to relocate some of its headquarters’ functions from Tokyo to Awaji Island and transfer its core employees accordingly. Pasona was established in 1976 as an HRM service provider firmly grounded in the noble corporate philosophy of “solutions to society’s problems”. Although many Japanese companies have their headquarters in overcrowded Tokyo, which is Japan’s administrative and economic center, ...
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