Achievement of well-being
In order to achieve “to evolve and grow as “Global Wacoal Group” by providing both physical and emotional beauty and richness to individuals through high sensitivity and premium quality” as addressed under our medium to long-term strategy framework “VISION 2030,” it is essential to increase the satisfaction of our employees, who are key stakeholders, and to improve the productivity of the organization as a whole.
At Wacoal Corp., we believe that improving the job satisfaction and happiness of each employee is the driving force to achieve high productivity, and we will implement initiatives to achieve well-being to improve employee engagement.
Promotion of Diverse Working Styles
We are promoting initiatives at Wacoal Corp. that seek to raise awareness and change behavior on how to increase labor productivity through a combination of promotion of flexible hours, introduction of a “super flexible time” system, and operation of a location-based employment system. While promoting organizational reforms which emphasize on performance and achievements, we are focusing on creating a corporate culture that respects each individual as a business partner by recognizing diverse opinions and values. Remote work has been adopted rapidly as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Since April 2024 we have been utilizing remote work as “a work style to maximize the achievements and performance,” while requiring certain attendance with a view to enhancing communication. We will continue to promote work style reforms to improve labor productivity and provide further flexibility in each individual’s use of their time.
REBORN Project to reorganize the business offices in Kyoto area is currently in progress. Aiming for a workplace that creates co-creation and transformation and accelerates value creation, we will transform not only offices but also work styles so as to enable open communication beyond the boundaries of organizations and floors as a new work style of Wacoal.
Health Management
Viewing the health of employees as an important asset for sustained growth, Wacoal Corp strategically promotes the health management by working together with the health insurance society and labor union as a trinity. One of the material issues set forth in VISION 2030 is the continuous improvement of employees’ health and health awareness. Our goal under the newly formulated Wacoal GENKI Project 2025 for promoting health management is to improve the physical and mental well-being of employees, leading to increased productivity and improved employee engagement. While continuing with various health maintaining countermeasures to address lifestyle diseases and cancer, we will step up on our efforts for improvement in mental health of employees in sales-related jobs and health issues of female workers which have been particularly important issues. Furthermore, Wacoal Holdings Corp. has been selected as an Excellent Enterprise of Health & Productivity Management (White 500) for eight years in a row since 2017.
Wacoal GENKI Project 2025
| Concrete initiatives | Targets | KPI | 2021/3 | 2022/3 | 2023/3 | 2024/3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physical and mental health | Improvement in the physical health of employees | Percentage of employees at risk of lifestyle diseases | Less than 25％ | 29.0 | 31.6 | 30.5 | 31.6 |
| Percentage of follow-up examinations taken by employees at high risk | 100％ | 87.6 | 87.3 | 86.2 | 89.4 | ||
| Improvement in the mental health of employees | Number of employees absent due to mental health issues × the number of days absent | Fewer than 10,000 | 14,798 | 16,600 | 25,506 | 16,833 | |
| Percentage of employees recording high levels of stress in stress check | Less than 5% | 7.9 | 11.2 | 13.0 | 13.6 | ||
| Independent employee health management through improved health literacy | Percentage of employees who are able to utilize information to determine plans and actions to improve their health | More than 70% | 59.5 | 62.2 | 58.7 | 55.2 | |
| Changes in behavior and attitudes toward health improvement | Diet | More than 90％ | 76.5 | 75.2 | 75.5 | 72.8 | |
| Exercise | More than 80％ | 58.4 | 57.6 | 60.8 | 60.6 | ||
| Sleep | More than 80％ | 70.0 | 67.2 | 67.8 | 63.7 | ||
| Alcohol consumption | More than 90％ | 82.6 | 82.4 | 83.5 | 83.9 | ||
| Smoking | More than 90％ | 85.4 | 85.8 | 86.8 | 86.2 | ||
| Women’s health | Improvements in health issues specific to women | Examinations for breast cancer | 100％ | 90.8 | 93.2 | 89.4 | 87.1 |
| Examinations for uterine cancer | 100％ | 76.7 | 77.4 | 79.3 | 75.2 | ||
| Increase in the number of employees with an understanding of symptoms specific to women | More than 95% | - | - | 90.7 | 90.1 | ||
| Percentage of employees whose work performance is negatively impacted due to symptoms specific to women | Less than 10% | - | 13.5 | 10.5 | 10.4 | ||
| Productivity | Increase in number of employees working with a high level of productivity | (Presenteeism)Percentage of employees with decreasing business performance | Reduce by 10％ | 7.7 | 8.1 | 6.0 | 7.1 |
| (Presenteeism)Loss rate due to decreased performance*1 | Reduce by 10％ | - | 33.6 | 33.1 | 33.4 | ||
| (Absenteeism)Total number of days lost due to injury or illness*2 | Reduce by 10％ | 26,694 | 26,157 | 38,380 | 25,318 | ||
| Engagement | Increase in number of enthusiastic employees who proactively carry out their work | Increase in positive responses to employee engagement survey | Increase by 10％ | - | 65.1 | 65.4 | 61.1 |
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Management of Employees' Health
To protect the safety and health of employees by preventing industrial accidents and disease, we have established Safety and Health Management Regulations and Policies, and ensure that these Regulations and Policies are understood and followed by all employees.
The Safety and Health Committee meets each month. The committee provides employees with health-related information that is pertinent to the season and implements various other activities to promote safety and health in the workplace.
Wacoal Health Insurance Union Implementing Various Health programs
Wacoal implements a health project for active health management, including disease prevention and health guidance required for maintaining good health. For example, we offer a subsidy system for breast cancer screenings, uterine cancer screenings, and cervical cancer vaccinations.We place particular emphasis on encouraging employees to undergo breast cancer examinations and uterine cancer examinations, and maintain a high rate of participation in these examinations.
Health Consultation Desk (Wacoal Health Insurance Union)
The Health Development Office supports daily health management to help employees work safely, comfortably, and with peace of mind. This includes conducting regular health check-ups, offering health guidance, and providing health counseling. These services are delivered by a team of industrial health professionals, including industrial physicians, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, counselors, and public health nurses.