Inclusion & Diversity

Turning inclusion into a force for transformation: The vision that drives our inclusion-first mindset
At Orico, we believe that diversity is not simply about having people of different backgrounds within the organization. The real value of diversity only emerges when each and every individual can embody their own unique qualities, think freely, and use those ideas to drive transformation that strengthens our competitiveness. In other words, inclusion is what allows diversity to deliver its true value.
While many companies refer to this concept as "Diversity & Inclusion", we use the opposite order -"Inclusion & Diversity"- to reflect our belief that inclusion comes first.

"Inclusion creates the future"
Embracing our Purpose, "Open the Future with You", we work to keep creating new value that goes beyond our customers' expectations. To realize that vision, what matters most to us is inclusion.
Bringing about real transformation takes more than just bringing people with diverse values and experiences together. What really matters is the determination to establish an environment where every individual feels comfortable and secure in expressing themselves, combine diverse perspectives, and generate new ideas. That is the true power of inclusion.
By respecting differences of all kinds and fostering a culture where everyone can make the most of their strengths, we will continue evolving into a more innovative, more flexible organization. Inclusion is the key to a new future for us. I believe embedding that vital element in our culture and making it a given are the foundation of our path to sustainable growth.
With a vision of nurturing an environment where every employee can shine in their own way and take on new challenges, I will drive our Company-wide efforts to strengthen inclusion.

To promote greater awareness across the workforce and cultivate our corporate culture, we have celebrated "Inclusion & Diversity Awareness Month" every May since 2023. This annual initiative gives employees opportunities to see inclusion and diversity as personally relevant, deepen their understanding, and enhance their awareness.

#My I&D Declaration
Through this initiative, employees express the kind of society they hope to realize, declare the efforts they want to pursue, and set personal action goals, all of which help embed inclusion and diversity throughout the Company.

The Grade 3 D&I Kentei (Certification Exam)
To foster basic DEI knowledge and encourage more and more people to take individual ownership of the issues at hand, we encourage employees to take the Grade 3 D&I Kentei (Certification Exam) offered by JobRainbow Co., Ltd. In fiscal year 2024, 490 employees earned the certification.

We also hold a variety of events that aim to make inclusion and diversity feel closer to home for people-open-to-all ERG events, panel discussions with female directors and other officers, panel discussions on paternity leave, athlete support events, and more.

In order to respond to the rapidly changing market environment and drive our business with flexibility and speed, we recognize that ensuring diversity among the next generation of managerial staff is an important challenge for our sustainable growth. Currently, 65.5% of our regular employees are women who play active roles in various fields. We have approximately 400 women employees in managerial positions, and we will continue to enhance our corporate value by incorporating diverse values and opinions. To promote this, we have established an Inclusion & Diversity Promotion Office at our headquarters to promote an environment where diverse talents can thrive. We are strengthening initiatives such as training programs for women employees and efforts to achieve work-life balance.
We are committed to creating an environment where all women employees can challenge various career goals and expand their areas of achievement. We conduct hierarchical training and management programs tailored for women leaders, including senior manager-level candidate development programs. Moving forward, we will further enhance our initiatives by providing training to eliminate unconscious biases that hinder employees' growth opportunities and actively promoting talented individuals.

The new action plan for women's advancement (April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2027), was created in accordance with the Law Concerning the Promotion of Women's Empowerment in Employment enacted on April 1, 2016.

In 2016, we launched the Orico Women's Network: an internal community that enables female senior managers at sales branches to share the challenges they face, talk about their experiences, and exchange advice in an open, supportive setting. In 2024, we expanded the network into a program with an internal and external reach, extending to all women in management positions and serving to give women more opportunities to flourish, improve career continuity, and enhance awareness. Through initiatives that foster external exchange, like cross-industry seminars for women managers, the Orico Women's Network provides women with opportunities to broaden their perspectives, elevate their aspirations, and secure support for their career development—all of which help nurture a culture that encourages proactive growth and the motivation to strive toward ambitious goals.

We are accelerating the development and promotion of female employees by establishing mentoring relationships between female executives and female employees who are candidates for Executive Officer or General Manager, with Executive Officers who are not their line managers or direct reports.

We provide female employees with career support from a health and wellness perspective, utilizing the "HELPO" healthcare app and a dedicated consultation service that we have created for women's health concerns. With the convenience of chat-based consultation, women can easily seek advice on the health issues that they deal with.

We are working to create an environment where female employees can thrive and feel more comfortable in their roles, aiming to foster mutual learning and support.

Guided by a spirit of mutual support, we are enhancing our programs to ensure that all employees can keep their professional lives in balance with childcare, nursing care, and other responsibilities, providing a structure that helps them feel comfortable at work and fulfill their potential.

We have also created two handbooks: "Supporting the Balance Between Work and Childbirth/Childcare" and "Supporting the Balance Between Work and Nursing Care". Another part of our efforts is education, which includes offering seminars designed to enhance nursing-care literacy and holding lectures geared toward training dementia supporters. In addition, we have formed an ERG dedicated to nursing-care and dementia support, which carries out community-contribution initiatives to assist people with dementia and their families.

As part of our efforts towards our customers, we offer family cards for Orico Cards to same-sex partners.

At Orico, we support employees with and without disabilities so that everyone can live life on their own terms through work that aligns with their individual strengths and aptitudes. We strive to hire people with disabilities and help them thrive through a variety of measures, including holding one-on-one meetings to help ensure integration, providing an internal handbook to foster understanding, and organizing study sessions that deepen awareness among employees. Thanks to initiatives that take each individual's circumstances and aptitudes for jobs into account and create workplaces where everyone can flourish, approximately 80 employees with disabilities are now thriving across Japan.

Since June 2023, we have also been part of the Cabinet Office's SDGs Public-Private Partnership Platform for Regional Development.

We meet Japan's statutory employment rate for people with disabilities, and we will continue advancing active hiring and workplace development so that every employee can maximize their potential.

At our Kagayaki Farm, employees with disabilities can shine. The farm is designed to respect the unique individuality everyone has and provide a setting where a diverse mix of people can find a sense of purpose—and joy—in what they do. Employees at Kagayaki Farm grow pesticide-free vegetables that do a body good. Through activities like distributing produce to business partners at events and providing "kodomo shokudo" (children's cafeterias) run by local governments with food, the farm offers support to local mothers and children and contributes to community health.

We are working on creating an environment where employees can continue to work with enthusiasm and passion for as long as possible.
Specifically, as part of our age-specific career development program, we conduct training for those approaching their 50th year, providing an opportunity to consider and learn about working styles and ways of life with a view to the next five to ten years.

In April 2025, we enhanced our systems to ensure an environment where employees aged 55 and over can continue thriving in their own ways at work. For example, we made our uniform, age-based stepping down from positions more flexible. We also made adjustments to benefit employees who continue to demonstrate high skills and strong performance potential after reaching the standard retirement age of 60, revising our employment and treatment frameworks to enable continued work up to age 70.

The promotion of diverse human resources regardless of nationality, gender, among others, is a major mission of ours in order to achieve permanent corporate growth.
We are actively recruiting talented foreign students with high global skills, regardless of nationality. Our employees come from not just Japan, but also China, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar.
We also have established an ERG for foreign national employees to facilitate communication amongst them and conduct discussions aimed at creating a more comfortable working environment.

At Orico, we embrace diversity and aim to create an organizational culture that allows each employee to flourish in their own way.
In 2017, we established the Orico Athletics Club, which currently has seven top athletes. We aim to enhance corporate vitality by fostering a sense of unity through the support of all employees for their colleagues who are taking on the challenge of achieving higher goals.