Work Style Reform
Creating a Rewarding and Comfortable Workplace
At NHK Spring, we believe that maintaining the physical and mental health of each employee, and enabling diverse talent to fully demonstrate their abilities and enhance productivity, is essential to the Company’s sustainable growth. To this end, we are promoting the creation of a rewarding and supportive workplace and advancing a variety of workstyle reform initiatives.
Improvement of Operational Efficiency
To reduce total working hours, we are promoting improvements in business processes and systems under the theme of “operational efficiency,” including reviews of core systems such as ERP and the use of advanced IT solutions. We have launched a project to replace our core systems, switching the expense management system from an in-house system to the latest cloud-based system, and initiated a Digital Transformation (DX) Promotion Project.
Improvement of Employee Engagement
To enhance the value created by each employee’s work, we are advancing initiatives under the theme of improving employee engagement. These include promoting diverse and flexible workstyles such as the introduction of a telecommuting system, joint labor–management efforts to improve work–life balance by reducing total working hours and encouraging the use of annual leave, and improving the working environment through the reduction or elimination of heavy labor. Since FY2022, we have conducted an annual Employee Engagement Survey to visualize survey results and issues and measures to be taken at each workplace, thereby establishing a system for continuous implementation of organizational improvement initiatives.
Results and Goals
| Results in FY2024 | FY2030 goal | |
| Employee Engagement Survey score | 67.6pt | 75pt |
Ongoing measures (work-life balance)
Supporting Work-Life Balance
At NHK Spring, based on the belief that improving work and private life is key to creating an attractive workplace where employees can achieve self-realization, we have established systems and take various measures to help balance work and private life.
Expansion of the leave, vacations, and short working hours system for childcare and nursing care
At NHK Spring, in addition to establishing systems for balancing work and private life, we are also devoting efforts to building an environment and cultivating awareness (through training and public information through the Company newsletter, etc.) so that it is easy to utilize systems.
The childcare leave utilization rate is generally 100% among female employees, and the rate is also increase among male employees.
Moreover, concerning measures for supporting development of the next generation, NHK Spring in 2021 acquired "Kurumin" certification from the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare as a "Company that Supports Child Rearing".
Encouragement to take annual paid leave
Employees are encouraged to take annual paid leave based on targets that are set between labor and management.
| Fiscal year | FY2021 | FY2022 | FY2023 | FY2024 |
| Annual average number of annual paid leave days taken | 16.3 days | 19.5 days | 19.8 days | 19.5 days |
| Annual paid leave utilization target achievement rate | 99% | 99% | 99% | 100% |
Rehiring system
Targeting persons who have retired from NHK Spring due to marriage, childbirth, childcare, spouse's transfer, nursing care, infertility treatment or other circumstances but want to display their abilities in the Company once again, this system is for rehiring such persons under certain conditions.
Regional employee system
NHK Spring introduced the regional employee system, which allows employees to work without being transferred, in FY2022. As well as catering to changing values regarding work, this system contributes to the balancing of work with private life and realization of diverse career formation.
Special leave system for infertility treatment
We have introduced a leave system specifically intended for employees seeking infertility treatment. This enables employees to take up to five days of leave per year (paid leave). This system can be used by female and male employees and is intended to prevent employees from retiring from work due to infertility treatment.
Labor-Management Relations
Resolution of issues based on labor-management cooperation
NHK Spring has established numerous opportunities for dialog with NHK Spring Labor Union in an effort to foster mutual understanding. At monthly meetings of the Central Labor-Management Council held at Head Office, labor-management dialog is deepened while the parties check conditions regarding working hours, utilization of annual paid leave, etc. and exchange opinions aimed at creating a better workplace. Also, individual business sites hold monthly meetings of Branch Labor-Management Councils with the NHK Spring Labor Union branches to resolve day-to-day issues.
Through conducting repeated dialog between labor and management, we strive to deepen mutual understanding and trust and realize business operations based on a unified stance between labor and management that enables us to immediately respond to business expansion and sudden changes in the business environment.
In addition, the Company and the labor union have concluded a comprehensive labor agreement covering all working conditions and overall labor-management relations with the aim of establishing fair and stable labor-management relations and promoting the Company's development and improving the livelihoods of union members. The collective labor agreement is publicly disclosed through printed materials distributed and posted on the Company's intranet so that all employees can view the latest working conditions whenever they want.