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Diversity & Inclusion Promotion

Diversity & Inclusion Promosion

当社の技術をクイズ形式で紹介(リサイクル再生ペンは参加者へ記念品として配布)

Previous Measures

Although we have taken continuing actions toward arranging better working conditions for women and promoting employee work-life balance since the 2005 fiscal year, we are also proceeding with a wide range of other measures to accelerate the creation of working environments which can allow our diverse human resources to be fully active. These measures include the establishment of a Diversity Promotion Office in April 2014, activities to enhance the awareness of diversity and inclusion, measures to promote the activity of women, and advancement of autonomous work-life management by employees.

Awareness of diversity and inclusion

Embrace diverse human resources and foster a culture in which each of our strengths can be demonstrated.

  • The transmission from the top management

  • Consciousness and behavioral change of management layer

    implementation of e-learning about D&I, penetration of "IkuBoss" in cooperation with the work Style reform project, etc.

  • Awareness raising for employees

  • Implementation of human rights education for new officers, new managers and new employees

  • Publication of company Newsletters

  • Implementation of Employee Awareness surveys

  • Holding the event throughout the company

Measures to promote women's careers

Deepen individual engagement and strategically foster train women

  • Mentor program
  • Dispatch of female employees to external programs
  • Support for individual development of female managerial candidates
  • Internal and external networking activities of female employees
  • Introduction of seminars and interview sheets for employees who take childcare leave

Support diverse human resources and their activities

  • Employment of people with disabilities

  • Employment of elderly people

  • The activities of global human resources

  • Initiatives for understanding LGBTQ issues

    Provision of e-learning programs promoting all employees' understanding of LGBTQ issues

  • Harassment prevention initiatives

    Provision of e-learning programs about the prevention of harassment to all employees

Promoting autonomous work-life management

Supporting diverse work styles of employees, aiming for both job satisfaction and ease of work

  • Support for flexible working styles (promotion of various support systems such as telework, etc)

  • Promotion of the involvement of fathers in childcare

    Creating a childcare handbook for male employees and holding round-table meetings about fathers' involvement in childcare

  • Support for balancing work and childcare

    Holding seminars for employees taking childcare leave, and the introduction of an interview form
    Holding seminars for employees who return to work after childcare leave, and the introduction of interviews before and after maternity/paternity/childcare leave

  • Support for balancing work and nursing care

    Holding seminars on nursing care

Topics

Event to Support Students Challenging Careers in Science and Engineering in 2022 summer

On August 2 and August 19, 2022, we held the "Riko-challe in summer of 2022"*1) online for junior high and high school students. The event was designed to let students experience the fun and excitement of science and engineering, and included company presentations, technology introductions, interaction with female technical employees, and virtual office tours. In the questionnaire after the event, we received comments such as "It was good to hear about the choice of humanities and sciences from senior employees," "I was surprised by Furukawa Electric's technology," and "I was able to experience the company as if I were really in the office. 

Interaction with female technical employees
(Left and center: senior female employees; right: moderator)
 

Quiz on our technology
Pens made from our recycled materials distributed as souvenirs

Online office tour to experience the inside of an actual office

*1 We are participating as a supporting organization in the "Riko challenge summer of 2022" promoted by Japan Business Federation in cooperation with the Cabinet Office.
"Rico-challe" Official Website, Gender Equality Bureau Cabinet Office, Government of Japan(別窓)

Dispatch of lecturers for "Lectures by members of the scientific community" for high school students

In July 2022, one of our female technical employees was dispatched as a lecturer to a girls' high school in Kanagawa Prefecture to give a "Science Worker Lecture" to first-year students, who listened intently and took notes as she talked about the work, daily schedule, and career choices of science employees working at companies. The students actively asked questions about employment and other topics.

Venue

Female technical employees on stage

Other

Initiatives of Group Companies

DFF Inc., サステナビリティ推進室, 組織開発課