Ensure appropriate working hours and work-life balance

We are actively enhancing various systems to ensure that all employees can continue working while balancing their work with childcare, nursing care, and other responsibilities.
Within our organization, we strive to create an environment where everyone can work comfortably and unleash their full potential based on the spirit of mutual support and assistance.
We are committed to implementing initiatives that promote a harmonious work-life balance and provide support to employees in managing their personal and professional responsibilities.

Key initiatives

Initiatives to reform work styles

Implementation of working hour council meetings

Since maintaining a comfortable working environment is necessary for creating a vibrant workplace, we hold semi-annual "Council on Working Hours" meetings at each workplace and discuss with the person in charge at each workplace and a representative on how to reduce total working hours. The meeting is held at each workplace unit and discusses how to encourage leaving work on time and taking Annual paid leave.

Annual paid leave

We encourage our employees to take at least 70% of their annual paid vacation days, creating a work environment that makes it easy to take leave.

Ensuring work-life balance

Promoting telework

Telework, which had been on trial since fiscal 2017, was introduced on a full-scale basis in fiscal 2019, and we are actively promoting its use to achieve flexible work styles unrestricted by time and place. We partcipated in Telework Days for the third consecutive year and set a Telework Challenge period. In fiscal 2019, our company-wide efforts were recognized and we were selected as one of the "100 Telework Pioneers" by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

Launch of "Slide Work"

In October 2019, we launched "Slide Work," a program that allows employees to choose their working hours at their discretion. This allows each individual to work flexibly according to their work situation and availability, which improves work efficiency and productivity as well as work-life balance.

Continuous work support system

This system allows employees who are unable to work at their current location due to marriage or relocation of a spouse/family member to request a transfer to the branch nearest to their new location, so that they can continue working for the company.

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Sabbatical leave

To motivate long-term employees and achieve work-life balance, on April 1, 2019, we have established a new Sabbatical leave system. This system flexibly respond to events not covered by the current leave system, such as childcare, nursing care, fertility treatment, career advancement such as overseas study and qualification acquisition, and social contribution such as volunteer work.