Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At Itoki, under the commitment of our top management, we view our colleagues, who come with a variety of genders, ages, nationalities, disabilities, employment status, working styles, customs, and values, as "diverse human resources," and aim to enable each individual to "lively" utilize their unique characteristics and demonstrate their abilities.

1. tissue activation
   • Motivate employees and create an energetic organization by enabling them to demonstrate their individual abilities.
2. Creating new value
   • The knowledge, experience, and values of diverse human resources are combined to create new ideas.
3. Improving productivity and motivation
   • All employees can work with high productivity and a sense of fulfillment through flexible work styles.

At the D&I Award 2024, Japan's largest awards program recognizing companies working toward diversity and inclusion, Itoki has been recognized as a "Best Workplace," the highest ranking, for the third consecutive year. Furthermore, the company received the D&I Award in the category for companies with 301 to 3,000 employees.

Itoki aims to be a company that continues to create innovation and provide value to society while valuing mental and physical health. We will continue to promote diversity and inclusion, which is the foundation of this.

Itoki participates in project-type training aimed at transforming sales and nurturing female sales staff in different industries, and conducts demonstration experiments on sales transformation within the organization. Efforts that involved the company, such as interaction between salespeople (sharing sales skills) and interaction with other departments (building and strengthening sales support systems), were highly evaluated by the judges. We are implementing internal reforms based on this demonstration experiment activity. In addition, we are engaged in various initiatives to promote women's empowerment, including the women's empowerment community "SPLi", and have been evaluated by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and have been certified as "Eruboshi 3rd stage".

Itoki is working to recruit highly specialized personnel in fields such as AI and mechanical engineering in order to realize new offices and work styles that respond to the diversification and digitalization of work styles. From 2022, the company will continue to exhibit at the job fair at Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam, and in 2024 will implement a one-month internship for students from the university. As a result, as of the end of 2024, a total of six graduates will have joined the company, and will be working with a global perspective.
In addition, a signing ceremony for a letter of confirmation regarding friendly exchanges and human resources partnerships with the university was held in December 2023.

Within the company, we will launch the ITOKI Global Initiative "API" in April 2023, a platform where Itoki Group members both in Japan and overseas can learn from each other, transcending differences in culture and values. We aim to develop human resources with an international perspective who can work together while respecting each other's differences. API also regularly holds online sessions and networking events.
We will continue to promote the creation of an organization that combines diversity and technical capabilities through collaboration with overseas universities, support for local recruitment, and revitalization of the internal community.

Since fiscal 2016, we have provided opportunities for childcare leave recipients to have childcare career support interviews with their superiors and the Human Resources Department, providing an opportunity to consider high-quality work styles, leading to continued employment and improved productivity.In addition, in 2022 we endorsed the "100% Male Childcare Leave Declaration" and joined the "Ikuboss Corporate Alliance."
In 2023, we began providing "childcare leave return-to-work support grants" to employees who return to work after taking childcare leave, depending on the number of days taken. We also created a "childcare leave advice collection for men" based on the feedback of those who have taken childcare leave, and promoted men taking childcare leave by holding monthly maternity and childcare leave information sessions that spouses can also attend. By concluding a labor-management agreement and making it possible to continue working during childcare leave at birth, we have reached a target of 75% taking childcare leave in 2024 (up 5 points from the previous year).

​We hold a "Work-care balance seminar" oncea year to provide employees with knowledge of caregiving and the initial steps to take, and to prevent employees from leaving their jobs to care for a family member. We have also updated the "Work-care balance support handbook," which explains what employees should do and what procedures are required to balance work and caregiving.

Itoki is a member of the Accessibility Consortium of Companies (ACE), which aims to establish a new model for employing people with disabilities and shares the same goals across industries and business types. The Kansai Factory works in cooperation with a local special needs school to accept interns and hold tours for parents.
Starting in 2023, with the aim of promoting understanding among employees, we will begin selling sweets made by local people with disabilities within the company and deepening understanding of disabilities through interactions with the makers. We will continue this initiative in 2024, leading to increased awareness among employees.