Brand unification, ICT-enabled work-style reform, and support for diverse talent

「[Skills matrix for the company’s directors]」

「To promote women's advancement, we have established the goals of sending at least 20% of female employees over a 4-year period to external training programs that enable cross-industry exchange and broaden their perspectives and values, for the purpose of developing candidates for female management positions and supporting the skills development and career advancement of female employees, and of raising the average number of days taken by male employees for childcare leave to at least 14 days. In addition, from fiscal 2025, following discussions by a D&I promotion working group made up of mid-career and younger members, we established the goal of achieving a 100% rate of male employees taking childcare leave or special leave for childcare purposes. (The current rate of male employees taking childcare leave is 72.7%, and we will work to raise it.)」

「By clarifying the target score for the engagement survey and formulating and implementing issue-specific improvement measures based on an analysis of the current situation, we will achieve improvements in the score that employees can recognize.」

「Under our administrative innovation strategy, we are promoting business-process reform and efficiency improvements with a forward-looking approach. We have also established an Engagement Improvement Project, developed a package of measures, and are implementing them as an integrated program. As part of our human-capital management initiatives, we are further promoting training by organizational level and strengthening organizational capabilities by enhancing individual capabilities.」

「We will identify the skills required of our employees, finalize and implement training programs based on a matrix plotting those skills by job type and organizational level. The Human Resources Committee will oversee their operation.」

「Under the administrative innovation strategy, we are taking a future-oriented approach to operational reform and efficiency improvements through the integration and reorganization of internal administrative functions. We are also revising the performance appraisal system to achieve the right people in the right positions, revising compensation systems that drive business growth, and improving employee compensation, while working to increase employee engagement.」

「Specifically, we are introducing a flextime work system without core hours, a remote-work system that eliminates the need to commute, and satellite offices for all employees, making it easier to achieve work-life balance while enabling employees to concentrate on their work and improve productivity. We also support female employees in continuing their careers and returning to work through an early-return childcare-leave support payment scheme for female employees who return from childcare leave ahead of schedule, and a job-return scheme that rehires employees who had no choice but to leave due to childcare or nursing care responsibilities.」

「In addition, we are pursuing well-being management, including health management, to increase employee engagement, aiming to become a company that is easy and rewarding to work for, and will improve productivity and corporate performance.」

「In addition, we are pursuing well-being management, including health management, to increase employee engagement, aiming to become a company that is easy and rewarding to work for, and will improve productivity and corporate performance.」

「In addition, we are pursuing well-being management, including health management, to increase employee engagement, aiming to become a company that is easy and rewarding to work for, and will improve productivity and corporate performance.」

「In particular, regarding the promotion of women, we have formulated a 5-year action plan for promoting women's advancement, with the goals of achieving an equal gender balance among new hires, doubling the number of female managers, and enhancing systems that enable flexible working while increasing the number of users.」

「Through active investment in health management and work-style reform, we will further increase employees' motivation to work, establish flexible ways of working unconstrained by time or place, and improve productivity through greater operational efficiency.」

「Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we will pursue new ways of working through business projects including the promotion of telework, eliminating the use of personal seals and DX in the sales division, while improving productivity through lower expenses and further operational efficiency.」

「Against this backdrop, the Group has formulated a growth strategy to achieve further “business-scale expansion” and “earnings-power strengthening” as a unified 八洲 engineering company, and will focus on the following 6 areas in executing the strategy. ⑤ Work-style reform: By pursuing flexible ways of working, we will create a healthy, rewarding and attractive workplace environment, provide opportunities for employees to demonstrate their abilities to the fullest, and improve productivity in a way that directly contributes to business growth. We will also review existing business and working arrangements and establish a framework capable of responding effectively to viral infectious diseases.」

「In addition, we are promoting health management while coordinating it with “work-style reform” and “diversity management” to create a rewarding workplace environment, and have now been certified as a “Health and Productivity Management Outstanding Organization 2019 (White 500),” selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Japan Health Council.」

「As new initiatives, we will introduce a flextime system without core hours and mobile work that also allows employees to work from home.」

「In addition, through work-style reform, we aim to create a rewarding workplace environment, improve productivity and strengthen earnings power.」

「In addition, the new head office building was completed in September 2016, and we are working as one company to strengthen our corporate foundation through “work-style reform” and “improving the productivity of administrative functions” enabled by the new creative office.」

「In addition, following the completion of the new head office building in September 2016, we will undertake Group-wide efforts to improve productivity and strengthen earnings power through the new creative office.」

「We will unify and promote the Group-wide brand strategy. In addition, we will transform work styles by developing ICT (information and communications technology) suited to new ways of working, while enhancing corporate value by supporting and promoting the success of diverse talent.」