SCSK Working Style Reforms

Management That Fully Exercises Our Employees' Potential

To achieve consistent growth over the medium to long term, it is vital that all of our employees are healthy, active, and have a sense of purpose. SCSK is united in its commitment to create such an environment across all of its organizations. Under the strong leadership of senior management, we were among the first in the industry to usher in working style reforms focused mainly on cutting back overtime hours and increasing the rate of consumed annual paid vacation days. Our efforts have begun to see steady successes and now we are seeking to build on them.

Initiatives for Working Style Reform

SCSK has been working continuously to create more efficient and flexible working styles since 2012 before the term working style reform was coined in Japan. From 2020, we launched a working style reform initiative to plan and execute new approaches to the concept for our offices and our location strategy with a focus on more productive work and remote work based on the rapidly changing social situation and business environment whose future remains difficult to predict. We believe that through these initiatives, improving employees’ physical and mental health and increasing their motivation toward work will give rise to a positive cycle where we improve the service value provided to clients and increase stakeholder returns.

Smart Work Challenge

Smart Work Challenge launched in FY2013 is a core measure of SCSK for promoting the target of reducing average monthly overtime hours to 20 hours or less and ensuring employees take all of their annual paid vacation days every year.

Between FY2014 and FY2019, we achieved the target average number of overtime hours of 20 hours or less and target rate of consumed annual paid vacation days of about 95%. Since FY2020, it has not been possible to achieve those targets for various reasons, including changes to new working styles that combine in-office and remote work, because of COVID-19. Therefore, we conducted a New Working Style Survey and are promoting measures to solve these problems. One example of these efforts is discussing online communication etiquette, case-specific communication guide, and in-house examples in the Communication Tips collection in the New Working Styles issued in 2021 and supporting efforts to achieve highly productive and creative work through quality communication. Furthermore, since FY2021, we have been working to balance efficient, highly productive working styles and self-improvement activities, under the slogan “tackling the challenge of more sophisticated smart work,” in order to create an independent organization that can flexibly responds to changes in the environment.

Creating New Working Styles with Dokodemo WORK

SCSK launched Dokodemo WORK, an initiative to establish and practice new working styles enabling employees to work anytime from anywhere. Dokodemo WORK includes three main measures implemented simultaneously. These are remote work that allows employees to work from home or a satellite office, paper diet where efforts are made to reduce both printing and storage involving paper, a major hurdle to remote work, and flexible offices that transform conventional offices with the flex address system and space set aside for varying working styles.

We are gradually expanding the scope of eligible organizations and will soon roll out this initiative companywide after identifying and resolving any issues. Management is also repeatedly getting the message out about Dokodemo WORK and sharing best practices across the company.

During Telework Days 2019, more than 50% of employees teleworked and this fiscal year more than 70% of employees worked from home during Japan’s state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Going forward, we will make further improvements to Dokodemo WORK’s mechanisms and environment in an effort to promote the mindset of focusing on results and not time or workplace.

Pleasant Workplace Environment

SCSK's Committee for Creating a Pleasant Workplace Environment

SCSK's Committee for Creating a Pleasant Workplace Environment is an e-work community in which all employees participate, regardless of job category, department, or post. Based on mutual trust with management, this community strives to facilitate the personal growth of employees together with the development of the Company. This is accomplished by contributing to form a fulfilling and rewarding workplace environment. The committee serves as a representative of employees in matters related to labor management. It also carries out various efforts related to such matters as stimulating communication between employees and enriching benefits programs.

Employee Satisfaction

As a result of promoting various types of measures, including those related to diversity and inclusion, in order to promote working style reforms, improve work-life balance, and use diverse human resources, we have maintained a high level of employee satisfaction as a company with a pleasant and rewarding workplace in the employee awareness survey conducted annually.

Furthermore, as one of our measures related to respecting diversity and making it possible for anyone to work with peace of mind, we continually conduct training and seminars to raise employee awareness of the LGBTQ community and harassment. Employees of related partner companies also participate in some of the anti-harassment training, and in FY2021, more than 3,400 employees took the course.

Initiatives for Rewarding Workplace Reforms

To achieve the SCSK Group’s vision of becoming a “Co-Creative IT Company in 2030,” and driven by intense changes in business climate, we must pursue reforms that not only create a pleasant workplace environment, but also a rewarding one as well. As a pioneer in working style reform, and as an IT service company supporting social infrastructure, we are working to develop an organizational culture where our entire workforce can fully contribute their skills so that each and every employee, who possesses abundant diversity, grows autonomously and achieves a strong sense of reward at work in order for SCSK to provide co-creative value to society.

Results and Future Policy for Working Style Reforms

Through the Smart Work Challenge, which was launched in FY2013, we have worked to create a pleasant workplace environment for everyone and linked this to improving the health of employees and creating opportunities for self-growth. By continuing to “tackle the challenge of more sophisticated smart work,” we will not only establish new working styles appropriate for SCSK and realize a rewarding working place for employees and business growth, but also contribute to the growth of clients’ businesses and link this to the creation of new value for society.

Work-Life Balance

Support for Balancing Work with Childcare or Family Care

We are promoting the development of an inclusive workplace environment. This includes eliminating long working hours, using remote work and flex time systems to provide flexibility in workplace and working hours, and offering various leave programs that make it possible to take time off down to the half day or hour, and thus creating a foundation so that employees from varying backgrounds can excel at work on the same stage.

Additionally, we have developed a program in response to women’s unique health issues and a program to support employees working reduced hours due to childcare or family care return to full-time work quickly. To complement these programs, we work to support autonomous career development by holding seminars that promote understanding of these issues and seek out solutions together and roundtables to facilitate communication and sharing of information among employees.

We have established a flexible work system and facilitated the smooth return to work for employees taking childcare leave and have various work-life balance programs in place to support employees in returning from paid leave at an early stage.