The Company provides support for employees who wish to balance work with childcare or nursing care by offering leave for certain periods, shortened working hours, and nursing care/family care leave. We are working to foster a culture in which any employee, regardless of gender, can take childcare leave, and the number of male employees taking childcare leave, including those working at business sites, is increasing each year. Furthermore, starting in FY 2024, we expanded the scope of the shortened working hours system for childcare from covering children under 3 years old to children under 18 years old as a way to support more flexible working styles. Going forward, we will strive to establish regulations for remote work as a working style that does not tie employees to a single location, as well as introduce systems that allow employees who have resigned due to childcare, nursing care, or studying abroad to rejoin the Company.
Parental Leave Usage Rate