Masaishi Yanai, founder of Fast Retailing Group, Uniqlo's parent company, revealed in a recent interview that the company plans to raise the maximum annual salary for social recruitment to 1 billion yen (about 55.524 million yuan) from 2022, more than his own annual salary of 400 million yen. hope to attract talents through high salaries.
The company will recruit people who work at Fast Retailing's headquarters and are proficient in digital and e-commerce transactions (EC) and supply chains. "what we need is not consultants and people from big companies, but people who can create new value or start from scratch," Yanai points out.
There is no limit on the number of recruits, says Mr Yanai: "it will be aimed at people at the talent level who are better than me. If there are good people, be prepared to recruit 100 to 200 people.
As of the end of August 2021, Fast Retailing has about 56000 employees, of which about 1600 are headquarter employees, most of whom are social recruitment. The average annual salary is about 9.6 million yen (about 530000 3107 yuan), and the maximum annual salary of 1 billion yen will be unprecedented.