The Fujikura Group believes that corporate competitive strength is based on good employee health. We recognize that the health of our employees is an important management resource for continuing to be a company that is appreciated by society. We strive to be a corporate group in which employees work with vigor, and are implementing initiatives to enhance mental and physical vitality and health.

The Fujikura Group Health Promotion Program assists the voluntary health activities of individual employees in an effective manner by accumulating and utilizing health related data through the use of ICT. As part of the Health Promotion Program, employees are given a pedometer and undergo, while multifunction scales and blood pressure monitors are made available at each business site to ensure employee have access to these measurements at any time.

By FY2018, we had held the step-counting event 11 times since we first launched it in FY2013. For the event, each person wears a pedometer that is handed out and competes with others in a virtual space walk. In FY2018, we staged the event in Oita and Chiba, the locale of each Group business site, using the theme of “create companions in the Fujikura Group” that we launched in fiscal 2016. Participants complete the walk by walking an average of 8,000 steps a day for 80 days in a row. The event provides new opportunities for communication through competitions between divisions and birthday team competitions.

Monitoring the impact on the body from sitting for long periods while working is an area that is being researched, mainly in the U.S. and Europe. In the Fujikura Group, we have been running a pilot test in the Health Management Promotion Department since fiscal 2015. We are using it as a model office to verify the benefits of standing while working. We are seeing the results from allowing each person to consciously choose whether to stand or sit, depending on the nature of the work being performed. This is enabling people to maintain a good balance as they accomplish their work, and is enabling people to sleep more soundly. In fiscal 2016, we provided support for the installation of elevating desks in each office, mainly for those who wanted them.

The Fujikura Group established Fujikura Social Health Research Institute Ltd. in April 2019 in order to further promote the ability of Fujikura Group employees to maintain their health and increase productivity through health management.
Until now, we have actively implemented innovative health management activities as a pioneer in the world using the enterprising spirit passed down as the traditional culture of the Fujikura Group. Citing example, we have made multifunction scales and blood pressure monitors available to employees to measure progress, visualized health diagnosis and various health data such as vitals, and held various events. Through these activities, we have seen the positive result of improving employee awareness of health maintenance and health improvement, including changes in behaviors due to events and changes in employee mindsets. Going forward, we will share various information and tests on employee health improvement to create a platform that will enable us to further promote health management.
In addition, it will provide health management consulting services to Fujikura Group companies to ensure they become leading companies in health management not only in Japan but around the world as well. In this manner, we will aim to realize the vision of a healthy society advocated in the SDGs.