Social Well-being

Work Environment

Promoting New Ways of Working with ‘Work Life Shift’ Under the New Normal

In these uncertain times, Fujitsu is promoting Work Life Shift as the New Normal to generate higher employee productivity than ever before, while ensuring that creativity and innovation continue to grow. Work Life Shift is a concept that achieves employee Well-being by not only focusing on ‘work’, but by completely shifting the ‘job’ and the ‘lifestyle’. We are implementing various initiatives, both in terms of personnel systems and workplace environment changes, that will allow us to create and deliver value for our customers regardless of location or time and that will enable the ongoing transformation of Fujitsu itself. The Work Life Shift offering consists of three key categories: Smart Working, Borderless Office, and Culture Change.

Smart Working

Employees of Fujitsu Group companies in Japan work principally on a teleworking basis (excluding those in manufacturing facilities and those assigned to customer sites). Our employees enjoy an optimal work style that allows them to choose flexible working hours and a work location that suit the characteristics and objectives of their work tasks as well as their lifestyle.

Borderless Office

Freed from the constraints of working in a traditional fixed workplace, employees can select a location that ideally matches the required task – be it their home, a hub office, a satellite office, or other appropriate workspace.

Culture Change

People management founded on high levels of employee autonomy and trust will generate maximized team performance and enhanced productivity.

Announcing Work Life Shift 2.0 : DX Company Work Styles that Cater to Everyone’s Well-being

In October 2021, Fujitsu announced Work Life Shift 2.0 as a way to achieve a true hybrid work style that includes the effective use of real communication in the office and also aims to provide workers a more fulfilled life. The new version puts in place more advanced measures that reflect both employee feedback and issues that arose when the original Work Life Shift was implemented.

  • Practical Hybrid Work and the Evolution to “Experience Place”
    As we look towards a post-COVID future, the office is evolving from the workplace of the past to an “experience place” that offers experiences only available at the office. New ways of using the office provide greater collaboration through real communication as we transition to a true hybrid work style that combines the real with the virtual.
  • Evolution of Work Styles for a DX Corporation
    At Fujitsu, we are making the value of the various experiences gained from putting hybrid work into practice visible as data as we move towards a work style that boosts productivity while allowing for greater creativity. We are also further stepping up our collaborations with other corporations and local governments who support the Work Life Shift concept and contributing to the resolution of problems for our customers and the community more broadly.
  • Enabling Work-Life Synergies
    By leveraging flexible work styles to make workers’ home lives more fulfilling, we are generating synergies and promoting new value creation, as well as achieving greater engagement and improving the well-being of all our employees.

Fujitsu Telework System

In April 2017, Fujitsu formally introduced a telework system that allows for flexible ways of working that are not tied to a specific location. This system is available to all Fujitsu parent company employees in Japan and includes working from home or a satellite office as well as working during business trips.
The telework system facilitates business continuity in emergency situations such as the spread of infectious diseases and during natural disasters, providing for work innovations such as holding online meetings and digitizing written materials. It also provides an environment that makes it easier for employees with other commitments, such as raising children or caring for relatives, to continue working, helping Fujitsu to support and retain and attract valuable personnel.

  • Goals of the System
    • To boost individual productivity and maximize the benefits of team work
    • To build an environment that supports continued participation by a diverse range of staff
    • To ensure business continuity and rapid responses to disasters

Initiatives Aimed at Reducing Long Working Hours

The Fujitsu Group aims to improve the well-being and productivity of every employee through a variety of initiatives aimed at reducing long working hours. By promoting Work Life Shift, we aim to implement practical hybrid work modes that combine real and virtual work to suit job goals, thereby improving productivity and creativity in work styles that create new value.

  • Examples of specific initiatives aimed at reducing long working hours:
    • Creating mechanisms to balance the workload across each day (canceling core time in flex time systems and utilizing breaks and restarts)
    • Promoting refresher periods (setting a recommended number of annual leave days to suit the summer and New Year breaks)
    • Using push notifications relating to working hours (sending alert e-mails regarding overtime work, displaying pop-up messages in punch in/out systems regarding health and communications for people working long hours)
    • Improving management (management education on working hours)

Support for a Healthy Work-Life Balance

Fujitsu and its domestic Group companies aim to generate new forms of value through Work-Life Synergies. We support each employee’s efforts to enrich their career with initiatives in areas such as childcare and nursing care.

1. Childcare

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  • Release of childbirth and childcare guidelines and a handbook for working parents

2. Caregiving

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VOICE Program

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Measures to Enhance Communication

Labor Relations

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In-house Social Media Network

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Initiative to Boost Psychological Safety

Fujitsu Design Initiative for Psychological Safety : A Project to Design Psychological Safety

In June 2021, the Fujitsu Group initiated a project to design psychological safety into its organizational environment such that the environment will promote mutual trust among its employees as they tackle challenges and experience failures.

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4. GOLD RING award received at the Psychological Safety Awards 2024
At the Psychological Safety Awards 2024, sponsored by ZENTech, Fujitsu received the GOLD RING award.

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Key Initiatives in Regions Outside Japan

Promoting Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) in ASEAN

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Beach Cleanup Campaigns in East Asia

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FY2025 Performance

Initiatives Aimed at Reducing Long Working Hours

The discretionary working system applies to 20% of employees, while the flex time system applies to 77% of employees (Fujitsu Limited)

Telework Rate

The telework rate is around 70%.

Unionization Rate

The unionization rate is 77.0% (Fujitsu Limited) *Calculation basis includes managers and non-regular employees who are not union members.

Turnover Rate

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