The intensifying competition for talent and the diversification of work styles are expanding the roles required of HR departments. Meanwhile, the tasks of HR personnel are becoming more complex, making productivity improvement and operational efficiency crucial challenges. Gourica Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kensuke Okamoto; hereinafter "Gourica"), which aims to improve productivity in the Japanese business world with the vision of "Making the world freer and richer through rationalization that supports people," conducted a "Survey on the Use of Work Time and Productivity" targeting business professionals (companies with 1,000 or more employees) working in large Japanese companies. This time, we focused on HR roles from the survey results to explore the actual situation regarding the use of work time and productivity. The survey results revealed that non-core tasks account for 52.5% of HR department work time, with "specialized routine tasks" making up the largest proportion at 29.0% among the surveyed job types. On the other hand, 46.8% of HR professionals recognize specialized routine tasks as "tasks that should inherently be standardized and yield the same results," suggesting that many tasks have room for efficiency improvement and standardization. Furthermore, 83.5% of HR professionals experience "learning and correction costs" in specialized routine tasks, and 87.5% of managers responded that they want to increase their subordinates' core work time, indicating a high level of awareness regarding the challenges of the current workload. Against this backdrop, 61.9% of HR professionals responded that "systematization" is necessary to reduce specialized routine tasks. Additionally, 81.3% responded that "it is more rational to leave it to experts or external tools," and 79.1% supported outsourcing tasks to specialized teams, showing high expectations for operational efficiency through the utilization of external resources and tec