(Current Employment Condition)

II．Impact on employment caused by the retirement of
the baby boomer generation

Q10: Choose and circle only one number that corresponds to your current
employment condition(FY2006).

(Your business conditions)

Current situation(FY2006)

Q7: Choose and circle only one number for your business conditions, now(FY2006) and over the next three years (FY2007-09).
Current conditions(FY2006)

Conditions over next three years(FY2007-2009)

Good1

Will be better

1

Neither good nor bad

2

Unchanged2Bad3

Will be worse3

Not predictable4Accounting item

Unchanged

123

Current profits

123

Labor costs

1232

Excessive3

Next three years(FY2007-2009)Will
decrease

SalesAppropriate

Q11: Choose and circle only one number that corresponds to your forecastof the impact on your employment condition caused by the retirement ofbaby boomer for the next three years (FY2007-2009).

Q8: How do you forecast your sales, current profits and labor costs over thenext three years (FY2007-2009, on an average annual basis) as
compared with those for the current year (FY2006)? Choose and circle
only one number.
Willincrease1(Impact on employment caused by the retirement of babyboomer)(Trends in sales, current profit, etc.)

Incr. or decr.

InsufficientInsufficiency
strengthened

1

Excess rosolved

2

No impact

3(Age brackets for which increase of employment is expected)

Note: Sales and current profit shall be the same as those stated in yourincome statement.

Q12: Choose and circle all the numbers that correspond to the age
brackets for which you expect increase of regular or nonregular
employees over the next three years(FY2007-2009).
Patterns ofemployment(Proportion of baby boomers)

Next three years(FY2007-2009)

Q9: Choose and circle only one number that corresponds to the number ofbaby boomers (born between 1947 and 1949 and aged 57 to 59 as of theend of 2006) as a proportion of the total number of employees.

Age bracket

Regular employee

Nonregular employees

Under 30

11Current proportion(as of the end of 2006)

30-39

2

20% to 5% (not inclusive)

140-493

35% to 10% (notinclusive)
10% to 15% (notinclusive)

250-594

4

360 and older

5515% or more

4Cannot tell664

(Employment trends by job type and pattern of employment)(Employment policy for baby boomers under the age to start
receiving pension benefits)

Q13: Choose and circle only one number that corresponds to the type ofjob for which you expect the highest rate of increase of the number of
employees over the next three years (FY2007-2009). Also choose andcircle only one number that corresponds to the pattern of employment
for which you expect the highest rate of increase of the number of
employees for each type of job.

Q14: Choose and circle all the numbers that correspond to youremployment policy for baby boomers under the age to start receiving
pension benefits over the next three years (FY2007-2009). Mark with◎(double circle) the number that correspond to the policy applied to thelargest number of employees.

Next three years (FY2007-2009)※

Nonregular employees such as contract
workers, part time workers

Temporary workers

Outsourcing of work to contractors, etc.

Regular employees (mid-career hired)

Persons engaged in workrequiring expertise(specialists in certain fields
such as accounting, legal
matters, finance, and R&D)

1123

45

Persons with high-level skills
required in work sites (skilledworkers)

2

12345

Managerial staff

312345

Persons engaged in routinework(office work)

4

12345

Persons engaged in routine workin work sites(unskilled workers)

5

1

2

3

45

Type of job

Regular employees (new graduates)

Choose the job type with the highest expected rate ofincrease of employees.

Patterns ofemployment

Next three years (FY2007-2009)※Choose the pattern ofemployment with thehighest expected rate ofincrease of employees
for each job type

Will extend or abolish the retirement age for employees.

1Will reemploy as regular employees without changing theiremployment conditions.

2

Will reemploy as regular employees but on changed conditions.

3

Will reemploy applicants as contract employees, part timeworkers.

4

Will employ at subsidiaries or group companies.

5

Will assist job changing or self-employment.

6

Any other policy, no policy decided yet.

7

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