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A trusted ally
for people at work
We work as an extension of your HR team — and as someone your people can think things through with.
When you need to talk something through — about your company, your workplace, or yourself — and find clarity before your next step, we're here to help. A Japan-based firm (headquartered in Toyama), working with companies and individuals across the country.
As an extension
of your HR team
We work alongside you on your HR challenges — from planning the solution through to making it stick in everyday operation.
Someone to think
it through with
The worries people carry at work, the difficulty of running an organization, the anxiety of keeping going — we think them through with you.
Features
Features
What we care about
All kinds of problems are brought into the workplace — from issues tied directly to competition and performance, to management concerns such as finance and compliance, to hiring, development, relationships and management, and the personal struggles of the people who work there.
We believe that meeting this range of workplace problems calls for an approach to both sides at once — the system and the people.
System
People
A great system means little without the people to carry it out —
and great people underperform on an unstable foundation.
We don't stop at building a system, making a hire, or running a training;
we work toward solutions where System and People reinforce each other
for lasting organizational growth.
Service
Services
What we offer
For companies & organizations
Who it's for
HR departments (especially small or dual-role teams)
Managers and team leaders
Executives and business owners
When it helps
Systems are in place, but aren't working in practice
Managers are isolated, and emotional care is hard to provide
There's no capacity to handle mental health, turnover, or harassment
What we offer
Designing, introducing, and embedding HR systems (grading, evaluation, compensation)
Manager training, and consulting for managers and HR staff
Mental health support (statutory stress checks, interviews, 1-on-1 support, and more)
Communication design that bridges managers, employees, HR, and leadership
For individuals
Who it's for
People carrying worries or anxiety about work
People who want to return to work but feel uneasy
People struggling with workplace relationships or their role
People under stress as a manager or a business owner
Not settling in after a job change, transfer, or promotion
Struggling with a relationship with a boss or subordinate
Low motivation, feeling unwell, or anxious about returning to work
When it helps
What we provide
Counseling by a Certified Public Psychologist
Psychological support, including improving the work environment
Return-to-work and re-employment support, and career consultation
About us
About us
A boutique practice — you work directly with senior practitioners, not a layer of junior staff.
Kumiko SHIMOYAMA
Co-founder & HR Planner
An HR professional with over 20 years of experience. She spent 12 years in HR and communications at the Recruit Group, a global HR and technology company — leading recruitment, training, evaluation, and HR system design, including four years as a manager bridging the front line and leadership. She then worked as an HR Business Partner (HRBP) at a global pharmaceutical company, rebuilding the HR function to connect the front line with management. As an independent HR planner, she has supported HR strategy and organizational development at a major advertising company and in the public sector.
She believes HR systems succeed less by their design than by whether they can be used — and sustained — on the ground. That conviction led her to co-found Hatarakuhitoto.
Tsuyoshi HORITA
Co-founder & Certified Public Psychologist
(Japan's national psychology qualification)
He spent 14 years supporting corporate management through accounting and management control, including at the Recruit Group, a global HR and technology company. Sensing the limits of managing by numbers alone, he built and led an organizational development team as a manager, working directly on how people and organizations grow together.
That experience drew him to psychology. He earned a Master of Psychology in clinical psychology and qualified as a Certified Public Psychologist — Japan's national psychology qualification. Today, while also affiliated with an EAP (Employee Assistance Program) firm, he addresses the hard-to-see issues between people and the workplace from both psychological and organizational angles.Because the challenges around work span both organizations and individuals, he believes two things must move together: putting systems in order, and staying close to the individual. He co-founded Hatarakuhitoto to do exactly that.
Company
Company
Hatarakuhitoto LLC (合同会社はたらく人と)
Founded
June 15, 2023
Address
Toyama Denki Building, Main Bldg 2F, 3-1 Sakurabashi-dori, Toyama City, Toyama, Japan (Available nationwide — by arrangement)
Capital
¥2,000,000
Co-founders
Kumiko Shimoyama & Tsuyoshi Horita
Business
HR Consulting · Workplace Mental Health Care
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