We are promoting work style reforms from three angles: flexible work styles, operational reforms, and the use of IT and AI. By offering a variety of work styles, we intend to create a work environment in which each employee can achieve results while feeling pride and job satisfaction.
Promoting a Good Work-life Balance
Based on the concept of “work hard, rest well,” we will promote an ideal work-life balance through flexible work styles. In addition to weekly no-overtime days, we support more flexible work styles with systems such as refreshment leave and memorial leave, an hourly paid leave system, and a super flextime system with no core hours. We also operate a flexible leave system that allows employees to take a leave of absence for personal reasons once during their employment for a maximum of two years at their own will. Four employees made use of this system in FY2023.
Systems to promote good work-life balance
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Multiple Role System
In February 2022, as a measure to enhance employee job satisfaction and motivation, we began operating the Internal Multiple Work System allowing employees to voluntarily take on themes they wish to work on in parallel with their existing work.
Items at present (number of employees as of March 31, 2024)
- Development of odor sensors (7 people)*
- Peptide agriculture (2 people)
- As development of the odor sensor has made progress, the sensor has been deployed at our Business Planning Division.
Improving Employee Engagement
In order to create environments in which employees are motivated and proud of their work and voluntarily demonstrate their abilities while maintaining a high level of willingness to contribute to the company, we believe it is important to have a thorough dialogue with the executives and other people in various positions within the organization, and we provide many opportunities for such dialogue.
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Business Innovation
- Introduction of a virtual desktop service that allows intranet access from outside the company
- Utilization of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) for automating and streamlining routine work
- Introduction of a Business Intelligence (BI) system for more efficient use of internal information
- Introduction of an e-POST system that allows employees to make proposals directly to the president and executives through the intranet
External Evaluation
First Best Practice Company in Kyoto Prefecture
In 2016, our company was recognized by the Kyoto Labor Bureau as the first Best Practice Company in Kyoto Prefecture for its proactive efforts to "reform the way we work."
Certified with 3.5 stars in “NIKKEI Sustainable Management Survey, Smart Work Edition” (November 2024)
We were certified with 3.5 stars rating in the NIKKEI Sustainable Management Survey, Smart Work Edition, which selects leading companies that aim to maximize their corporate value by accelerating investment in human resources, fully leveraging their talent, generating new innovations and improving productivity. This survey, conducted by Nikkei Inc. since 2017, targets listed companies and prominent unlisted companies nationwide, and evaluates “Smart Work Management”, which is defined as an initiative to maximize organizational performance through three elements: human resource utilization, human resource investment, and technology utilization, and is evaluated on a five-star scale. We received a grade of S for “Ability to human resource utilization”, A++ for “Ability to human resource investment” and A++ for “Ability to technology utilization”.
