Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At ITOKI, based on 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 strive to ensure that each and every one of us is ``lively and active.'' We aim to utilize our characteristics and demonstrate our potential.

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.

We have been recognized as the "Best Workplace" for the secondconsecutive year at the D&I Award 2023, Japan's largest award recognizing companies working on diversity and inclusion. In addition, we received the D&I Award in the category for companies with 301 to 3,000 employees. Itoki aims to be a company that maintains mental and physical health, continues to create innovation and provide value (added value) to society, and will continue to value diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives that support 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".

In recent years, ITOKI has been developing products that realize new office and work styles in response to the rapid diversification and digitalization of work styles, and the acquisition of highly specialized human resources is an essential requirement. This is one of the challenges. Therefore, in order to acquire highly specialized human resources from overseas in fields such as AI and mechanical engineering, we have been participating in the JOB FAIR held in Vietnam with the aim of matching Japanese companies and local students since 2022. As of 2019, two graduates of Hanoi University of Technology have joined our company and are expanding their career opportunities.
In December 2023, we held a signing ceremony for a letter of confirmation to establish a partnership regarding friendly exchanges and highly skilled human resources with Hanoi University of Technology.

Internally, from April 2023, ITOKI Group members in Japan and overseas will overcome all barriers, such as differences in language, way of thinking, and customs, to "independently learn from each other and develop into human resources who can play an active role on the global stage." The platform ITOKI Global Initiative “API” has been launched. By gaining a deep and fundamental understanding of the differences in culture, religion, customs, etc. of each country, we aim to improve understanding, thinking, and awareness of diversity and the true "global."

Since fiscal 2016, we have provided opportunities for childcare leave recipients to have interviews with their superiors and the Human Resources Department to support their childcare careers, providing an opportunity to consider high-quality work styles and 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 returned to work after taking childcare leave, depending on the number of days taken. In addition, we created a "childcare leave advice collection for men" based on the feedback from those who have taken childcare leave, and promoted the taking of childcare leave by holding maternity and childcare leave information sessions once a month that spouses can also attend. By concluding a labor-management agreement and making it possible to work during childcare leave at birth, the rate of men taking childcare leave in 2023 was 70.0% (up 24.3% 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 Enterprises (ACE), which unites companies across industries and business formats with the aim of establishing a new model for employing people with disabilities.
In addition, the Kansai Factory cooperates with local special needs schools to accept interns and hold tours for parents. In 2023, in order to promote understanding among employees, we sold sweets made by people with disabilities in the local area within the company, and deepened understanding of disabilities through interactions with the actual makers.