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Sysmex aims to balance value-added productivity* and employee engagement. As indicators of the effects of human capital investment, we set value-added productivity and employee engagement scores and monitor them continually.
The value-added productivity per employee of Sysmex Corporation for fiscal 2023 reached a record high of 14,800 yen per hour, which demonstrates the effectiveness of our human capital investment. The return on human capital investment (operating profit divided by labor cost) also reached a record high of 167.9%. These results are accomplished as high levels of employee engagement are maintained and employees are willing to take on new tasks. Our action plans to foster an organizational culture that balances value-added productivity and employee engagement have been producing consistent outcomes.
Sysmex Corporation uses various measures to encourage employees to take paid leave. They include the introduction of recommended dates for paid leave and a half-day paid leave system. Other measures include allowances paid under the “Cafeteria Plan1” (our welfare program) to employees who take consecutive paid leave days for travel, leisure, or courses at culture centers. In fiscal 2023, in consideration of recent price increases, we strengthened investment in human resources that support the improvement of employee wellbeing engagement and continuous corporate growth pursuant to the Multi-Stakeholder Policy. When paying winter bonuses, we implemented a special payment2 in the form of employee stock ownership, separately from regular bonuses.
Sysmex Corporation has introduced several programs to provide family support, from prenatal care to child-rearing. These programs include leave for parenting, fertility treatment or morning sickness, a spouse’s childbirth, and the nursing of children. When childcare leave expires after an employee’s child turns two years of age, employees are entitled to reduced working hours and a work-from-home program until the child enters junior high school. We support employees returning to work after childcare leave, including with seminars before their return, as well as distribution of newsletters (including the Diversity Newsletter) to employees on childcare leave. Technopark, our R&D site, has an in-house daycare center called Sysmex Kids Park. It is also available for temporary use when employees’ spouses work part-time, children’s guardians are sick, or an employee is arranging a funeral. Through such support, we encourage all employees who desire to return to work after childcare leave to do so.
In recognition of such initiatives, we have received next-generation support certification (with a logo nicknamed “Kurumin”*) as a “company that supports child-rearing” from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. In fiscal 2023, we were also selected as a “Next Nadeshiko: Companies Supporting Dual-career and Co-parenting” by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange. This program recognizes companies that make particularly outstanding efforts to support dual-career and co-parenting.
Wonderful Moments: Connecting the Past and the Future
Kids Park Director, Ms. Kyotani
As part of Hyogo Prefecture's "Try-Yaru Week"*, we welcomed junior high school students for a childcare experience. We were extremely delighted to have the graduates of Kids Park return to our facility. Over the past 14 years, various staff members have spent time with the children, and we are honored to have shared such wonderful moments. It was a moment that made us feel the connection between the past and the future.
On the final day, we saw off the two students with cheers, as if it were their second graduation ceremony, celebrating their new journey. As childcare providers, we hope that the time spent at Kids Park will be a source of strength for all those who have graduated.
We also hope that this experience serves as a good opportunity for the parents of our current children to imagine the future growth of their own children.
Sysmex Corporation implements measures to increase the number of male employees taking childcare leave. These measures include the distribution of Dad's Childcare Leave Guidebook and the organization of seminars for male employees and their supervisors, inviting external lecturers. At the seminar, lectures were given and opinions were exchanged about the importance of men being involved in parenting, work-life balance, and the essentials of childcare, in addition to appropriate support by supervisors to allow male employees to take childcare leave.
Hayato Aoki, Reagent Engineering
At the time I took childcare leave, I was a development leader. In addition to two months of childcare leave, I took more than three months off in total, including paid leave and special leave for events such as weddings and funerals. By participating in childcare, I was able to experience my child's growth, and at home, the bond of cooperative parenting was strengthened. After taking childcare leave, I encouraged my colleagues to take childcare leave as well, based on my own experience. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of men in our department taking childcare leave.
Our Group companies also engage in various initiatives to provide a comfortable working environment.
The companies in the EMEA region1 have all received the Great Place to Work2 award for their excellent workplace environments and employee satisfaction. At Sysmex UK, all managers have completed training on well-being so that emphasis is placed on the health of each and every employee and a positive work-life balance is ensured for all employees. Sysmex South Africa is expanding systems to support a balance between work and child-rearing. The efforts include the incorporation of a maternity policy into its human resources policies and a guarantee of four months of paid maternity leave. Additionally, Sysmex Spain and Sysmex Portugal have been selected by El Mundo as two of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
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