Creating Better Working Environments

Initiatives

Practicing Work-life Balance

FANUC considers reduction of long working hours to be an issue, and is striving to lower the maximum limit for overtime work and promote the taking of annual vacations as corrective measures. We check the achievement status of these goals and working hours in monthly meetings attended by executives. Annual vacations were taken at a rate of 86% in FY2022, achieving the target of 80%. In addition, to facilitate flexible work styles that achieve a better balance with everyday life, it has been possible to take annual vacations in hourly increments since October 2020.
In addition to annual leave, we have also established systems to make it easier for employees to take various types of leave. We have been expanding the leave system to include an infertility leave system and to add family care and infertility treatment as eligible purposes for using accumulated vacation (paid).
To better promote the balance of work and child care, we have extended the application of the shorter working hours system for child care until children have finished elementary school.
In recent years, in response to feedback from employees that they would want to continue working while receiving treatment even if they are diagnosed with cancer or other serious illnesses, we have established a helpdesk to support such employees so that they can work while receiving treatment, by promoting shorter working hours, telecommuting, and other means.

*Official working hours of FANUC CORPORATION is 7 hours 45 minutes a day, 124 vacation days in FY2022, and the annual total official working hours is 1,867 hours.

Main Systems

• Support for Balancing Work and Home Life
• Child-care leave (Return-to-work ratio: 100%; Retention ratio one year after returning to work: 100%)
• Maternity leave
• Nursing-care leave (e.g., to take care of elderly parents)
• Infertility leave
• Subsidies for specific infertility treatment costs
• Shorter working hours for child care
• Refreshment leave (can be taken after 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, 25 years, 30 years, 35 years, and 40 years of employment)
• Leave due to transfer of a spouse
• Telecommuting system

Promotion of Mental-health Care (EAP) and Line Care

In addition to treatment by psychiatrists and mental health care mainly by counsellors, as part of our health support initiatives for employees, FANUC offers an employee support program delivered by external specialist institutions to current employees and their family members, as well as former employees who were at least 60 years of age when they resigned.
Eligible persons can receive guidance and advice from specialists, including consultation on health-related concerns, mental health counselling, and second opinions.
By providing line-care training for management positions on a regular basis, we are working to create comfortable workplace environments and to achieve early detection and treatment for employees with mental health issues.
We also conduct stress checks every year, follow up with individuals with high stress levels, and analyze the ratio of health risks and individuals with high stress levels by organization. In these ways, we are making efforts to help those organizations with problems improve their workplace environment.

FANUC Nursery School (Corporate-led Nursery Business)

With the growing number of employees of the child-rearing generation in their 20s and 30s, we established a corporate-led nursery business in the spring of 2019.
Located next door to the workplace, FANUC Nursery School reduces the time for transporting children to and from the nursery school. It also enables certain handover of children in the event of an emergency. It provides an environment where users can comfortably balance work and life.
In addition, the facility actively accepts 0-year-olds, facilitating a smooth return to work for employees on child-care leave.
The school is actively engaged in initiatives to improve the quality of child care, such as offering various training programs to its nursery teachers and providing dietary education through preparing school lunches using local ingredients. In Oshino-mura, Yamanashi Prefecture, where our headquarters is located, children hone their senses and cultivate a curiosity for learning through experiences in the changing seasons of nature.
FANUC Nursery School will continue to provide an environment in which its users will be able to balance child-rearing and career development with peace of mind into the future.

Name: FANUC Nursery School
Address: 3515-1, Shibokusa, Oshino-Mura, Minamitsuru-Gun, Yamanashi, Japan
Facility area: Floor area: 259.2 m²; Playground area: Approx. 470 m²
Capacity: 19 (Max. 31)
Eligible ages: From at least 31 weeks after birth to under 3 years old
Eligibility: Priority is given to employees of FANUC and its subsidiaries, but children of local residents are also accepted.
Opening hours: 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Promotion of Barrier-free Buildings

Along with the new construction or renovation of offices, we have been gradually installing inclusive restroom for all, designed to provide wheelchair access and gender-neutrality.

Facilities with wheelchair-accessible restrooms

Asset-building Support

• Corporate pension plan
  With the corporate pension plans, we guarantee future benefits to employees so that they can work with peace of mind.

• Retirement allowance plan
  FANUC has set up retirement allowance plans to reward employees for their long-term contributions to the company, so that they can live with peace of mind after retirement.

• Employee shareholding association plan
  FANUC has an employee shareholding association to support all full-time employees with long-term asset building by acquiring shares in the company.