Work/Life Balance

Work/Life Balance

In Japan, SII has established and been continually enhancing a variety of systems which support every employee in balancing their careers and family lives so that they can fully exercise their abilities.

Since FY 2019, we have introduced a system that allows employees to shift their scheduled start and end times within a certain range (work hour shift system). The purpose of this system of flexible work hours regardless of the reasons (i.e., circumstances of childcare or nursing care) is to allow employees the flexibility to enhance their personal lives with other activities such as volunteering or studying. We have also introduced a system that allows employees to work shorter hours for any reason (short-time employee system) and a three-day workweek (short-day work system).

In addition to this, we also have a caregiver leave system that allows for up to three years of caregiving leave for one member of each eligible family, helping them to balance both work and the need for potentially long-term care for their loved ones.

In FY 2022, as in the previous fiscal year, we continued to implement the telecommuting system from the perspective of preventing the spread of COVID-19. In the future, we plan to establish and introduce a telecommuting system for the purpose of work-life balance by labor and management.

System and Results of Use (in Japan)

System	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020	FY2021	FY2022
Childcare leave	21	23	16	22 (including 3 male employees)	17 (including 7 male employees)
Short-hours work for childcare	24	22	17	22 (including 1 male employee)	19 (including 1 male employee)
Caregiving leave	0	0	2	0	0
Short-hours work for caregiving leave	1	1	0	0	0