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 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 of labor productivity and change behavior through the introduction of a "super flexible time" system, which does not designate any core time, for the promotion of flexible hours, the operation of a location-based employment system and Wacoal version of ABW with the reorganization of the business offices in Kyoto district. We have also adopted systems that address various lifestyles, such as a long-term self-development leave program. While promoting organizational reforms which emphasize performance and achievements, we are focusing on creating a corporate culture that respects each individual as a business partner by recognizing diverse values.
Wacoal version ABW
ABW = "Activity Based Working" is a work style that allows employees to select time and place depending on work autonomously. Wacoal version ABW assumes a free address workspace for any positions and job titles (with some exceptions). It is defined as the work style in which a person autonomously and flexibly chooses a floor and area to work, depending on the job details and time, as well as collaborating partners to maximize the benefits of the work arrangement and avoid being restricted by a specific floor or area.
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 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. As one of the health management efforts, we conducted an activity to have male managers go through a simulated experience to feel period pain to understand women's health issues and change the managers' behavior. While continuing with various health maintaining countermeasures to address lifestyle diseases and cancer, we will step up on our efforts for improvement in the mental health of employees in sales-related jobs and health issues of female workers which have been particularly important issues.
Wacoal GENKI Project 2025
| Concrete initiatives | Targets | KPI | 2021/3 | 2022/3 | 2023/3 | 2024/3 | 2025/3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 32.6 |
| Percentage of follow-up examinations taken by employees at high risk | 100％ | 87.6 | 87.3 | 86.2 | 89.4 | 88.3 | ||
| 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 | 18,396 | |
| Percentage of employees recording high levels of stress in stress check | Less than 5% | 7.9 | 11.2 | 13.0 | 13.6 | 8.1 | ||
| 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 | Survey Not Conducted | |
| Changes in behavior and attitudes toward health improvement | Diet | More than 90％ | 76.5 | 75.2 | 75.5 | 72.8 | 71.1 | |
| Exercise | More than 80％ | 58.4 | 57.6 | 60.8 | 60.6 | 63.1 | ||
| Sleep | More than 80％ | 70.0 | 67.2 | 67.8 | 63.7 | 63.5 | ||
| Alcohol consumption | More than 90％ | 82.6 | 82.4 | 83.5 | 83.9 | 89.3 | ||
| Smoking | More than 90％ | 85.4 | 85.8 | 86.8 | 86.2 | 87.6 | ||
| Women's health | Improvements in health issues specific to women | Examinations for breast cancer | 100％ | 90.8 | 93.2 | 89.4 | 87.1 | 69.5 |
| Examinations for uterine cancer | 100％ | 76.7 | 77.4 | 79.3 | 75.2 | 59.5 | ||
| Increase in the number of employees with an understanding of symptoms specific to women | More than 95% | - | - | 90.7 | 90.1 | Survey Not Conducted | ||
| Percentage of employees whose work performance is negatively impacted due to symptoms specific to women | Less than 10% | - | 13.5 | 10.5 | 10.4 | Survey Not Conducted | ||
| 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 | Survey Not Conducted |
| (Presenteeism)Loss rate due to decreased performance*1 | Reduce by 10％ | - | 33.6 | 33.1 | 33.4 | Survey Not Conducted | ||
| (Absenteeism)Total number of days lost due to injury or illness*2 | Reduce by 10％ | 26,694 | 26,157 | 38,380 | 25,318 | 28,736 | ||
| 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 | 50.4 |
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Management of Employees' Health
Safety and Health Management
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.
Initiatives by the Wacoal Health Insurance Society
The Wacoal Health Insurance Society is pursuing a variety of health services to help employees and their families stay healthy both physically and mentally. Examples include providing health-related information, preventing illness, promoting sports activities, improving the environment for medical treatment, and running recreation facilities.
The health services that are also available to people with voluntarily continued insurance and their dependents include providing health checkups, promoting health-boosting challenges, subsidizing vaccinations against cervical cancer, providing external health consultations, and support for quitting smoking.
In addition, the Wacoal Health Development Team supports employees with managing their health on a daily basis, with the aim of creating workplaces where employees can feel assured that they can work healthily. We have established a system to support employees' mental and physical health by providing health consultation desks where employees can feel free to discuss even minor concerns as well as mental health issues.