The Fujikura Group helps employees achieve work-life balance, while respecting diverse values and lifestyles, in hopes of supporting the achievement of both business growth and enriched personal lifestyles.

Fujikura Ltd. works to ensure appropriate working hours as one of its most important management issues that will help improve the value of the company and its human capital. We strive to ensure local compliance and reduce overtime work hours across the entire Group. In June 2014, we documented the Group's policies on appropriate working hours and have been conducting related activities regarding the following as the three pillars of these policies.

In April 2017, we established the Labor-Management Review Committee on Work Style Reform, which has been actively working towards work style reforms. The committee comprises members from the human resources department and the labor union. In fiscal 2018, the average monthly overtime hours was -1.11 h / month compared to the previous year, and we achieved certain results. In addition, we reviewed the 36 contracted hours in accordance with the stable operation of the telecommuting system and work style reform-related laws, and made improvements to allow flexible working styles to reduce total actual working hours.

Fujikura's systems in support of work-life balance are outlined in the eight-th General Employer's Action Plan.

We hold Work Style Reform Challenge Day to reevaluate the conventional approach to work styles and approaches, with the following main initiatives.

In support of Telework Days, which is promoted by the government, the period from July 23, 2018 to July 27, 2018, "A culture in which employees utilize diverse working styles and produce outputs" The following efforts were encouraged in order to foster a culture of accepting diverse working styles.
1.Promote new applications for workplaces where the flex work system is not applied
2.At a workplace where the flextime system is applied, commuting from the core time start time or leaving the work earlier than the prescribed working time
3.Acquisition of regular holidays (full and half holidays)
4.Going straight / going home when going out or traveling
5.Recommended work from home

* What is Telework Days?
The government will work with related organizations to increase productivity, secure a work-life ban, and promote the spread of telework that contributes to excellent human resources. July 24 is Telework Day, and companies and other organizations are conducting telework throughout the country.

The Fujikura Group offers activities and support systems to enhance employee incentives in order to increase its corporate value and develop a workplace environment that enables diverse workforce to contribute their skills to the fullest. Within these systems are items that have continued tracing back to the first president, Tomekichi Matsumoto.

Fujikura offers a system of banking vacation days (banked holidays system) which enables an employee to use their paid holidays for which the two-year entitlement period has expired up to a maximum of 100 unused vacation days for events such as illness or family care. Starting in April 2015, as a measure to develop a workplace environment that is compatible with diverse lifestyles, we added community service activities (volunteering) as another way of using banked holidays.

CSR activities that fall under this system include volunteer activities during a disaster, donor registration and provision related activity, welfare activities for persons with disabilities, welfare activities for the elderly, community service activities including disaster and crime prevention, youth guidance and development related activities, and so on.
In fiscal 2018, there were 10 employees, for a total of 32 days.