In fiscal 2021, the Group established a work-style innovation function within the General Affairs Department and has been working on group-wide work-style reforms. By promoting work-style innovation, the Group aims to create new time and value, enhance communication and engagement, and accelerate and sustain innovation for the future of the Group.
In work-style innovation, we respect the creativity, productivity, and effectiveness of each employee and organization, and seek to create a culture that brings the Group together, in which employees take the initiative and drive sustainable transformation at the Company through shared efforts to raise morale and improve productivity.
We will support “time creation” for growth and creative work by strengthening our development of digital tools and supporting their use by individuals.
Purpose of digital tool use
- Improvement of work efficiency
- High-quality communication that transcends place and time
- Evidence-based judgment
- Visualization, analysis, and improvement of workstyles
Examples of the use of digital tools
We seek dramatic changes in workstyles through the further application of RPA* that has been so far deployed. To that end, we will further explore operations that can be RPA-enabled, train more advanced RPA developers, and install RPA in each department.
Through these efforts, our goal is to create conditions where each employee is digitally savvy, actively uses it during the course of work and, has the most productive workstyle.
- Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a technology that automates work processes and tasks performed on a computer on behalf of humans.
Current Group status of RPA (as of May 2025)
We will support employees’ growth by transforming the “time” created utilizing digital technology into time for independent learning, internal and external communication, and innovative time to achieve a workstyle in which each employee can perform at their best.
Specific initiatives
- Implementing a new hybrid workstyle*, allowing each employee to select workstyles that enable them to perform at their best
- Sharing examples of employees who have implemented true work-style innovations that offer tips for new ways of working with diversity
- Supporting reforms in workstyles that allow people to perform well (visual representation of workstyles)
- Hybrid workstyle is a flexible way of working that combines working in an office with teleworking in a manner that suits both operational characteristics and the circumstances of the individual in order to achieve results as an organization.
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- Introducing videos on hybrid work on the company intranet
We seek a state of high engagement wherein employees understand the Group’s vision and work together to achieve it. To this end, we will create a relationship in which employees are healthy and motivated, and work with the Company to contribute to growth.
We offer multifaceted values that make working in the Group appealing.
Specific initiatives
- Promoting employee-led problem-solving projects
- Conducting training to invigorate relationships between members and encourage convincing, creative output
- Training to foster connections spanning organizations, age groups, and roles
- Implementing and assessing workstyles aimed at constructing ideal working methods for each organization
Held Wai Gaya* workshops to create new connections
*A venue for comfortable dialog that encourages exchange and connections between employees regardless
of the position or the nature of their work
Note: Information on this page pertains to activities and results for fiscal 2024.