Monolith Soft talks about its positive work environment and culture

Hirohide Sugiura, one of the founders of Monolith Soft, weighed in a little while back about the company’s work environment. This comes from the Company Brochure 2024, which published different interviews and more.

In one part of an interview, Sugiura was asked about Monolith Soft’s strengths. He pointed to the company’s work environment, focusing on work-life balance, and more.

Our translation is as follows:

“The fact that we have prepared an environment that people can relax and work easily in.

One characteristic of Monolith Soft is our work environment. For things such as overtime pay calculated by the minute, or easily-approved paid leave outside of busy times, which are now standard in the gaming industry, we had implemented such measures fairly early on. We have even had other companies in the industry ask us for advice on how to execute these measures.

When people are able to secure time to spend with family or live leisurely, that allows them to focus on their work. Since everyone is then able to think more about improving their work performance, we have been able to get estimates on development schedules much easier than in the past.

Also, we have gathered many more people who share our views on work-life balance, making this part of our foundation, which is a great asset.”

Something we also recently translated from Sugiura were some interesting thoughts he had regarding the past and future of Monolith Soft. You can find that here in case you missed it. 

Translation provided by SatsumaFS, Simon Griffin, and Philip Proctor on behalf of Nintendo Everything.