​

ITOKI CORPORATION (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Minato Koji; hereinafter, "ITOKI") received three-star (third level) "Elboshi" certification from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on August 23, 2022, as a company that has an excellent record of implementing initiatives to promote women's participation in the workforce.

"Eruboshi Certification" is a system in which the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare certifies companies that have established and submitted an action plan based on the Act on Promotion of Women's Participation and Advancement in the Workplace and that have excellent initiatives to promote the active participation of women. . Employees are evaluated on a three-point scale based on five criteria set by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare: 1. Recruitment, 2. Continued employment, 3. Working style including working hours, 4. Ratio of managers, and 5. Diverse career paths.

[Reference: Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare website Shokubarabo]

At ITOKI, under the commitment of our top management, we consider our colleagues of various genders, ages, nationalities, disabilities, employment types, work styles, customs, values, etc. to be ``diverse human resources,'' and we believe that each individual is ``lively'' and has their own characteristics. We aim to make full use of our strengths and demonstrate our potential.

In 2020, we were certified as a "Childcare Support Company" based on the "Next Generation Development Support Promotion Act" and received the Next Generation Development Support Company Certification Mark (nicknamed "Kurumin").
In addition, we received the 2020 Excellence Award in the large-scale company category at the Osaka Mayor's Award, which is given to companies that are taking particularly outstanding initiatives among companies certified as "Osaka City's Leading Companies for Women's Empowerment." By implementing original training to develop the next generation of leaders specializing in women and various initiatives aimed at balancing work and childcare, we aim to change the mindset of male employees and superiors, and the rate of childcare leave taken by male employees has significantly increased. It was evaluated that the improvement in

[Reference: Regarding the winners of the Osaka City Mayor's Award for Women's Empowerment Leading Company in 2020]

We continue to formulate action plans and are working toward the goal of ``creating an environment where employees, regardless of gender, can fully demonstrate their abilities, play an active role, and work with vigor.''

Itoki has established an environment where diverse human resources can play an active role, and has placed the development of female leadership as a priority management policy, in order to lead to major changes and growth through the fusion and activation of all kinds of diversity. , we are developing various initiatives.
As part of this effort, starting in fiscal 2022, under the leadership of top management, we launched SPLi, a community focused on women's leadership.

■ Initiatives of the women's community "SPLi"
This is a community that supports continuous career development by providing an environment and plan where you can demonstrate leadership while making use of your uniqueness and diverse individuality.
More than 10% of our employees are women, and we take the initiative to come together and carry out a variety of activities.

`` We Design Tomorrow. We Design WORK-Style. Itoki believes that enabling a diverse range of employees to play an active role will lead to tomorrow's WORK-Style for society as a whole, and will continue to develop various initiatives.