{"id":538,"date":"2022-12-28T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workmill.jp\/en\/?post_type=webzine&p=538"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T05:46:54","slug":"working-from-home-mikle-20221228","status":"publish","type":"webzine","link":"https:\/\/workmill.jp\/en\/webzine\/working-from-home-mikle-20221228\/","title":{"rendered":"Working from Home since 2005! Story of Mikle Co., LTD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since its inception in 2005, Mikle Co., Ltd. has held a unique administrative vision and culture, defined by wholesome ideas such as “family first” and “no work pressure.\u201d To put it simply, Mikle has been following the \u201cNew Normal\u201d way before it was cool!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although it has a staff of just 10 people, Mikle possesses a total external staff of about 100 people and operates more than 10 businesses, including famous bulletin board services such as “Mansion Community” and “Mikle BBS,” as well as the blog widget “FeedWind<\/a>,” which is used on more than 150,000 websites from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the small scale of its team of highly skilled professionals, Mikle has managed to achieve positive results on a global scale. Having operated in an officeless fashion since 2005, Mikle and its employees have continued to leave people awestruck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>The Origins of Mikle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The origins of Mikle go back to 1995 when Naoki Fukui, the CEO of Mikle Co., was a curious university student who was interested in the advancement of the Internet in Japan and how it would change the traditional ways of working. He eventually went on to establish 2 different companies and then bought a real estate site that was about to end its service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Naoki<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2015 Naoki Fukui
CEO of Mikle Co., Ltd. Joined NTT in 1996. In 2003, he became the representative director of NeoWiz Japan, the Japanese division of a Korean-listed company. He established Mikle Co., Ltd. in 2005, and Mikle Inc. in 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Mikle was born to manage this very real estate site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>What is Mikle all about?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mikle Co., Ltd. is about producing global services and developing businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since its establishment, Mikle has been operating the bulletin board dedicated to new condominiums, known as the “Mansion Community<\/a>.”, based on the idea of an easy exchange of information. Since then, it has become the largest consumer-to-consumer site in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Launched in 2005, “Mikle BBS<\/a>” and its sister site, “Onayami BBS<\/a>” are anonymous bulletin boards for women to discuss their daily worries. Today, the board sees more than 1.5 million people per month as its visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikle\u2019s current flagship service is “FeedWind<\/a>,” which is led by the COO, Lee Jaehong. It is a blog widget (application software icon displayed on the screen) that allows you to flexibly customize links to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc., and add them to your site more easily than using the official widgets. Currently, it has been adopted by NASA, the University of London, Stanford University, and Rakuten in Japan, and is used by over 100,000 people in 76 countries around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Lee<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2015 Lee Jaehong
COO of Mikle Co., Ltd. and CEO of its American division Mikle Inc. He moved to Japan from South Korea in 2002 and joined Mikle, after leaving Yahoo, in 2006. He expanded the scale of their web services, from Japan, into a paid service used in 76 countries around the world. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The central idea of Mikle and all its sister operations is to constantly develop continuous revenue-type services rather than one-time purchase-type services.<\/p>\n\n\n

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