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Recruit Holdings Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Recruit Holdings · Tokyo, Japan
Recruit rebuilt its Tokyo Station headquarters as a “park” for meeting in person, while many staff can work remotely for any reason.
The tower by Tokyo Station, the CO-EN floors, the time-off rules and the road from a prefab hut on a Shimbashi rooftop. Every number from Recruit's own reports, press releases and careers pages.
- ≈ 3 daysoff per week on average at Recruit Co. (140 days a year)
- 14–28 daysSTEP leave, once every 3 years
- 21 floorsrenewed in the HQ building, finished March 2023
- 45,586Group employees (Mar 31, 2026)
Sources: Recruit Co. careers — Benefits (mid-career) · GOOD PLACE project page “Recruit Co., Ltd. head office” · Recruit Holdings Company Profile and Annual Securities Report FY2025
Companies / Japan / HR technology & staffing / Recruit Holdings
THE HEADQUARTERS · GRANTOKYO SOUTH TOWER · 2008
An office at Tokyo Station rebuilt as a place to meet
Recruit moved its headquarters to GranTokyo South Tower, next to Tokyo Station, in 2008. Since work no longer assumes coming in, Recruit treats the office as a place for gathering and face-to-face talk, under the idea “CO-EN” (a park, Co-Encounter). A renewal finished in March 2023 covered 21 floors of the building and other sites while people kept working there; every floor got its own CO-EN lounge that each department decorates, and all desks are unassigned. The 22nd floor became the CO-EN floor: six gathering spaces and a dining room.
- 1-9-2 Marunouchi, by Tokyo Station
- HQ since 2008
- 21-floor renewal, March 2023
- All desks unassigned
- 22F CO-EN floor with dining
- Nikkei New Office Award (40F, 2017)
CO-EN floors: unassigned desks and department lounges
A renewal finished in March 2023 covered 21 floors; all desks are unassigned and every floor has a CO-EN lounge that its department decorates.
Academy Hall and its foyer
The Academy Hall and its foyer were renewed together with the head office, completed in March 2023.
The tower at Tokyo Station
Recruit has been headquartered in GranTokyo South Tower, 1-9-2 Marunouchi, since 2008.
Facts: Recruit Holdings History · Recruit Co. press release, Jul 12, 2023 · GOOD PLACE project pages (Recruit head office; Academy Hall and foyer) · NOPA, 30th Nikkei New Office Award
GranTokyo South Tower, Marunouchi
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters (GranTokyo South Tower) | 1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-6640 |
| Kudanshita office (Kudanzaka-ue KS Building) | 1-14-6 Kudan-kita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0073 |
| Sumitomo Fudosan Tamachi Building | 3-12-7 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023 |
Source: Recruit Holdings Company Profile · Recruit Co. office list (recruit.co.jp/company/office/) · See them on the map ↓
Source: GOOD PLACE project page “Recruit Co., Ltd. head office” (completed March 2023) · NOPA, 30th Nikkei New Office Award (Recruit Holdings HQ office, 40th floor) · Recruit Holdings History. sq ft conversions by eciffo.
Office tour videos
Benefits (Japan, Recruit Co., Ltd.)
Includes “flexible holidays” you choose yourself; with five planned leave days, about three days off a week on average.
Once every three years of service, taken as one continuous break.
For taking four or more consecutive days of paid leave, once a year.
Unused paid leave can be banked for illness, childcare, fertility treatment, caregiving, volunteering and more.
Paid special leave from pregnancy until the child's 12th school year; men can use it too.
For caring for family, no care certification needed — pets included.
Per child per day, up to 10 times a year, for sick-child daycare or sitters.
Remote work regardless of reason or frequency in many roles; flextime; commuting paid for days you come in.
Source: recruit.co.jp/employment/mid-career/benefits/ (Recruit Co. careers, mid-career). The new-graduate page says 145 days off a year; the mid-career page says 140.
What keeps people at Recruit: what the company itself says
Recruit's internal business-idea contest. The bridal magazine Zexy (1993) was born from it, and since 2022 people from outside can join if the lead proposer is an employee.
Every three years of service, 14 to 28 consecutive calendar days off, taken in one block.
Paid once a year to employees with at least one year of service who take four or more days of paid leave in a row.
In many roles and departments, remote work is allowed regardless of reason or frequency, with satellite offices across Japan.
Group-wide in FY2026, up from 39% in FY2021; the goal is gender parity at every level by FY2030.
Average age 40.2 for the 130 employees of Recruit Holdings itself (Mar 31, 2026).
Source: Recruit Co. careers — Benefits (mid-career) · Recruit Holdings History · Recruit Co. press release, Apr 19, 2024 · Recruit Holdings Our People · Annual Securities Report FY2025 (English translation)
Who works here
Group employees, excluding contract staff (Mar 31, 2026)
Recruit Co. employees at its Chiyoda-ku head office and other sites
of senior executives are women (FY2026), up from 10% in FY2021
people at the holding company itself, average age 40.2
average annual salary at the holding company (130 people, FY2025)
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2025 (English translation): Employees and Status of Major Facilities · Recruit Holdings Our People (group scope; as of April 1, 2026). Percentages by business calculated by eciffo.
Office history: from a rooftop prefab in Shimbashi to Tokyo Station
- 1960 A prefab hut on a Nishi-Shimbashi rooftop
Recruit started in 1960 as an advertising agency for job ads in university newspapers, working from a prefabricated unit on the roof of the Dai-2 Mori Building in Nishi-Shimbashi, Tokyo.
Source: Recruit Holdings About (recruit-holdings.com/ja/about/) · History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1962–63 “Invitation to Companies” and Japan Recruit Center
In 1962 it published Invitation to Companies, a free book of job information for students, which set its two-sided “ribbon model”. Japan Recruit Center, the predecessor of today's Recruit Holdings, was set up in 1963; the name changed to Recruit Co., Ltd. in 1984.
Source: Recruit Holdings History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008 GranTokyo South Tower, Marunouchi
The headquarters moved to Gran Tokyo SOUTH TOWER, 1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, next to Tokyo Station.
Source: Recruit Holdings History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2012 A holding company in the same tower
Recruit became the holding company Recruit Holdings and split its businesses into operating companies. It acquired Indeed the same year and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2014.
Source: Recruit Holdings History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2015 A new way of working on the 40th floor
In October 2015 a 2,192 m², 420-seat headquarters office on the 40th floor opened, planned by Recruit's work-style reform project. It won a New Office Promotion Award at the 30th Nikkei New Office Awards.
Source: NOPA, 30th Nikkei New Office Award
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021 Part of the office moves to Kudanshita
In 2021 Recruit Co. opened its Kudanshita office in the Kudanzaka-ue KS Building, with spaces for meeting new teammates, quick brainstorms and lunch breaks. In 2024 its ground floor became the community space CO-EN9, with park-style play structures.
Source: Recruit Co. press releases, Jul 12, 2023 and Apr 19, 2024
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 The headquarters becomes a “park”
A renewal of 21 floors of the HQ building and other buildings, done in six phases while staff kept working, was completed in March 2023. The 22nd floor reopened as the CO-EN floor, with a seminar room, lounge, an open “pergola” area and a dining room serving miso soup made from kelp-and-bonito stock and rice cooked in a kamado.
Source: Recruit Co. press release, Jul 12, 2023 · GOOD PLACE project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23,594 | 2,192 | HQ office, 40th floor (420 seats) |
| 2023 | ≈ 427,000 | ≈ 39,670 | Renewal scope: 21 HQ floors and other buildings (≈ 12,000 tsubo) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
About 1.8 km apart: from a rooftop hut in Nishi-Shimbashi to a tower at the Yaesu side of Tokyo Station.
- 1 · 1960Dai-2 Mori Building, Nishi-Shimbashi — First office: a prefab unit on the roof
- 2 · 2008GranTokyo South Tower, 1-9-2 Marunouchi — Headquarters today, next to Tokyo Station
Addresses: Recruit Holdings About page and History. The 1960 point marks the Nishi-Shimbashi district only (no street address published).
What Recruit Holdings does
Recruit started in 1960 as an advertising agency for job ads in university newspapers. Today its biggest businesses are Indeed and Glassdoor (HR Technology), staffing in Japan, Europe, the US and Australia, and Japanese matching platforms and SaaS such as SUUMO, Hot Pepper, Jalan and AirREGI.
Three segments: HR Technology, Staffing, and Marketing Matching Technologies (MMT).
Where the money came from · Revenue by segment · FY2025 (Apr 2025 – Mar 2026)
Source: Earnings Summary for Q4 FY2025 (May 15, 2026)
Source: Earnings Release for Q4 FY2025 (May 15, 2026)
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥2.87T → ¥3.70T
51,757 → 45,586
Fiscal years start April 1 (FY2025 = Apr 2025 – Mar 2026). Revenue (IFRS) and employees (consolidated, excluding contract staff, at March 31): Annual Securities Report FY2025, Key Performance Indicators. Only five years are shown because earlier figures were only available as PDFs. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Representative Director, President and CEO since April 2021; also President and CEO of Indeed, Inc. He led the acquisition of Indeed in 2012.
Representative Director, President and CEO from 2012; Chairperson since April 2021. Joined in 1987 and helped launch Zexy.
Founded in 1960 as an advertising agency for job ads in university newspapers.
Source: Recruit Holdings Leadership (Hisayuki Idekoba; Masumi Minegishi) · History
Recruit Holdings: questions people ask
Where is Recruit Holdings' headquarters?
At GranTokyo South Tower, 1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, next to Tokyo Station. Recruit moved its headquarters there in 2008.
Source: Recruit Holdings Company Profile · History
Where did Recruit start?
In 1960, in a prefabricated unit on the roof of the Dai-2 Mori Building in Nishi-Shimbashi, Tokyo, as an advertising agency for job ads in university newspapers.
Source: Recruit Holdings About · History
What is CO-EN at Recruit's office?
CO-EN (park, Co-Encounter) is Recruit's idea of the office as a park where people from different teams and outside the company meet. The renewed 22nd floor of the HQ is the CO-EN floor, and every renewed floor has a CO-EN lounge decorated by its department.
Source: Recruit Co. press release, Jul 12, 2023 · GOOD PLACE project page
Who designed Recruit's headquarters office?
The 2023 renewal had basic design by Jamo associates, with construction, project management and detailed design by GOOD PLACE (formerly Cosmos More). The 40th-floor office of 2015 was designed with Frontier Consulting and built by Cosmos More.
Source: GOOD PLACE project page · NOPA, 30th Nikkei New Office Award
Does Recruit allow remote work?
Yes. Recruit Co. has shifted to work that does not assume coming to the office; in many roles remote work is allowed regardless of reason or frequency, with satellite offices across Japan and flextime.
Source: Recruit Co. careers — Benefits (mid-career)
How many days off do Recruit employees get?
Recruit Co. gives 140 days off a year, including “flexible holidays” you choose yourself — about three days off a week on average. Every three years there is also STEP leave of 14 to 28 days in a row.
Source: Recruit Co. careers — Benefits (mid-career)
What is the food like at Recruit's HQ?
The dining room on the 22nd floor serves miso soup made each morning from kelp-and-bonito stock and rice cooked in a kamado; the café serves caffè latte and gelato.
Source: Recruit Co. press release, Jul 12, 2023
How many people work at Recruit?
45,586 Group employees (excluding contract staff) on March 31, 2026: 18,005 in HR Technology, 14,096 in Marketing Matching Technologies, 13,354 in Staffing and 131 in holding-company functions.
Source: Annual Securities Report FY2025
Who is Recruit Holdings' CEO?
Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba, Representative Director, President and CEO since April 2021, who is also President and CEO of Indeed. Masumi Minegishi, CEO from 2012, is Chairperson.
Source: Recruit Holdings Leadership
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