Open communication starts with "honesty now"

This is the editor-in-chief's courtyard.
It has been four months since we launched the Monosasu website.

Work, live, live.
A collection of various measuring sticks.
The honest present of a person who measures things.

The above phrase appears on the top right corner of the homepage, and at Monosasu, we have taken this phrase " Honest Now " as our motto (?!), and we strive to convey as honestly as possible how we work and live, and what the company is like on a day-to-day basis.

Each day's posts are written in turn by all staff members, and we've been receiving more and more diverse responses through the site.
In addition to job-related consultations, customers have seen me on the website and spoke to me, and it has become an opportunity for my family to learn about my daily work. I found the story about the changes that have been made to recruitment activities particularly interesting, so I would like to share that with you today.

The changing landscape of interviews

The other day, our CEO, Hayashi, said with a puzzled look on his face, "Recently, the people who come for interviews seem to know a lot about Monosus."

When I asked him in detail what it meant,

"We were planning to go to a deserted island for our company trip. Zamami Island looked like fun."
"I think I'll win the Best Monosashist award!"
"What kind of system is the company cafeteria?"
"The interior construction in Thailand was very difficult."

It seems that more and more people are making statements that take into account small details that would not be understood unless they read the article on the site.

Because they understand Monosus through the site, they are able to focus on "listening to what the other person has to say," such as about who the person is and why they want to work for us, rather than "explaining about the company" during the interview. As a result, they say they are able to understand each other on a deeper level than before.

In the past, when we asked people about their motivations for applying, they sometimes felt like, "You don't know much about our company, is that really what you really think?" (Of course, that can't be helped, since back then there wasn't as much information on our website as there is now.) However, with this site, various aspects of our company have been brought to the surface, and applicants are now able to sympathize with us on many different points and come for interviews.

Monosus becoming a skeleton: The future of communication

In Japanese culture there is a concept of "honne and tatemae."
If this site is to be "honest," it is necessary to make the "real feelings" and "tatemae" as consistent as possible and to open up the monosus to a skeleton state. For that reason, we encourage contributors to speak in the first person (I am...), and to talk about various events and experiences as honestly as possible.

By accumulating these experiences, it feels like the outline of the company is not defined by a set phrase such as "this is what our company is like," but rather that it vaguely emerges from a collection of diverse, individual "honest presents."
By listening to the people who applied and sympathized with us in various ways, I feel like I have discovered a new way of communicating with the outside world.
Just as in recruitment, where opening up has allowed for deeper communication, the way we connect with others may change.

We would like to continue to use the Monosasu site to communicate about us using a variety of words and expressions, and to explore ways to communicate with everyone on the other side of the Monosasu site.