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Work-Life Balance

Kureha is planning and implementing various measures to allow our employees to work flexibly and productively, with a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment, at each stage of life and according to their individual lifestyles. We want to build a corporate culture that respects every employee and fosters their ambition and growth. Therefore, we have introduced a flextime system, telecommuting system, a per half-day or per hour annual paid leave system, and various systems to support child-rearing and care-giving so that each employee can work to their full potential while maintaining harmony between work and family life.

Work-Life Balance

Goals and Vision

  • Employees are working vigorously while maintaining harmony between work and life.

Fiscal Year 2022 Plan

  • Work with a healthy work-life balance.

FY2022 Performance and Outcomes

Workstyle

  • The members promoting workstyle reforms at each business site will take the lead in formulating and implementing measures to improve work comfort and job satisfaction.
  • The telecommuting system was introduced as a permanent system to improve productivity and work-life balance. In a post-introduction survey, more than 90% of telecommuters responded that their work-life balance had improved.
  • The flextime system was revised based on feedback from business sites, and core work hours were shortened for an even more flexible workstyle.

COVID-19

  • In response to COVID-19, we took appropriate measures in accordance with government guidelines, including thorough implementation of basic infection control measures and a revision of work schedules through the utilization of flextime and telecommuting.

Welfare Program

  • A cafeteria plan menu review committee was formed by labor and management to expand the menu related to health promotion and self-development, with the aim of improving the use of employee benefit programs.

Flexible Workstyle

Workstyle Reform

As part of our workstyle reform efforts, based on the concept of growth, vitality, and ambition, we are supporting the autonomous growth of each employee, making organizational goals more personalized to improve job satisfaction, and promoting physical fitness. We are also striving to increase the utilization of annual paid leave and reduce overtime for a more comfortable work environment. In July 2022, we introduced a permanent telecommuting system, and in October 2022, we shortened the core hours of our flextime system as a measure to help improve productivity and work-life balance. We will continue our workstyle reform efforts to improve flexibility, productivity, and work-life balance in response to new lifestyles.

ESG Data Collection (Social)

General Employer Action Plan based on the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children

Kureha has formulated the following action plan to improve work-life balance and promote the creation of a comfortable work environment.

General Employer Action Plan Bulletin Website (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's comprehensive website for supporting women's advancement and work-life balance) (Japanese Only)

Action plan period: April 1, 2020 - March 31, 2025 (5 years)

  • Objective 1: Familiarize and provide information to employees who are balancing work and childcare, and their department heads, about maternity leave before and after childbirth, childcare leave, childcare leave benefits, exemption from social insurance premiums during childcare leave, and other systems.
  • Objective 2: Achieve a utilization rate of at least 70% of annual paid leave days granted for each employment management category and both sexes.

Childcare and Caregiving

Kureha is committed to creating an environment in which employees can work to their full potential, and has established systems that are accessible to both men and women according to their parental and nursing care needs, such as paid leave days for childcare, nursing, and caregiving, and shorter working hours.

ESG Data Collection (Society)

Support for Balancing Work and Caregiving

Since fiscal 2018, Kureha has been conducting a seminar to support employees aged 40 and older who are balancing work and nursing care. This seminar aims to broaden employees' options as they face the challenge of adult nursing by providing them with preliminary knowledge. Care managers from outside Kureha give simple and accessible lectures and engage in dialogue with participants to deepen their understanding of adult nursing care.