Building a company worth working at
Enabling the flourishing of diverse talent

Haseko Group Diversity & Inclusion Promotion Policy

Haseko Group Diversity & Inclusion Promotion Policy The source of the Haseko Group’s competitiveness is our diverse human resources drawn from a diverse range of professional backgrounds. These human resources share with one another their ideas on “housing to create great living” which the Company then draws upon to create a unique business model. Each and every employee of the Haseko Group remains committed to putting into practice the five points of the Group’s Principles of Conduct all the while retaining focus on the goal of further enhancing corporate value through the demonstration of diverse sets of values, ways of thinking, individual characteristics, and capabilities that recognize no boundaries in terms of race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, or disability, with "getting the most out of their qualities" as a key theme.

• (1) To promote the development of an environment which can adapt to on-going social changes and in which each and every employee can achieve genuine satisfaction in their work.
• (2) To take the idea born out of collaboration between the Group’s diverse human resources and to tie it to the creation of added value in terms of living and lifestyle that the Haseko Group provides.
• (3) To improve the Group working environment, including by helping employees find a balance between work and family, and to expand our workplaces and business areas as places in which employees can thrive so as to ensure continued diversity in our human resources.

Established: April 14, 2023

*The Haseko Group Philosophy　Principles of Conduct

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Initiatives aimed at promoting understanding of D&I and putting it into practice

To promote understanding of D&I and put it into practice, we conduct the following initiatives aimed at creating a better workplace by encouraging all employees to think about “getting the most out of their qualities.”

Fiscal 2024 initiatives

We conduct e-learning for all employees, including temporary employees, to deepen their understanding of basic D&I knowledge and unconscious bias, and encourage implementation in daily operations.

We conduct training to managers at the general manager level and above on the themes of application of D&I to organizational management and management of diverse human resources, and support leaders in developing awareness and changing behaviors.

Supporting the active participation of women

The Haseko Group aims to provide fair opportunities for all employees to flourish, regardless of gender. While there are not many women working in the construction industry, the number of women active in construction management in the Haseko Group increases every year. We are studying and implementing various measures to create an environment that allows women to bring out their best over the long term.

Activities of the Office for Promotion of Active Participation of Women

Aiming to realize “Building a company worth working at,” one of the CSR initiative themes for the creation of a pleasant workplace for everyone, we are implementing initiatives for women’s network building and solving workstyle and workplace environment issues to “create a workplace environment where women can enjoy a long career.”

Hosting a gathering of female employees

As part of measures for women’s network building, and to identify issues in their workstyles and workplace environments, and eliminate their concerns about balancing work and family and career advancement, we hold a gathering of female employees. As their workstyles and workplaces vary depending on their business units (divisions or companies) in the Haseko Group, the gathering is held at each business unit so that they can communicate with fellow employees and identify individual issues.

“Female Staff Training Workshops” held by the Construction divisions

In fiscal 2024, various workshops, discussions, and other sessions were held with the goals of “giving a more concrete shape to employees’ vague visions of their futures by learning how senior female employees working at construction sites” and “creating a workplace environment where men and women understand each other and want to work together for a long time.” The “Female Staff Training Workshops” were meaningful, where participants listened to presentations by female staff who had returned from childcare leave and had lively exchanges of opinions on the discussion theme. The matters covered in the workshop will be studied and implemented in future policies and measures, further advancing our efforts to “create construction sites where women can work comfortably.”

Delivering information through an internal portal site “Together, we are building a company worth working at”

The Haseko Group operates an internal portal site, “Together, we’re building a company worth working at,” to deliver more information aimed at promoting D&I. In addition to messages from the Group’s senior management, it also introduces role models that represent different work styles, introduces the systems concerning childbirth, parenting, nursing care, etc., and covers various other career support information, while also serving as a forum for sharing opinions. Through this website, we are helping to “create a workplace environment where women can enjoy a long career” by primarily employee-led efforts.

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Earned a top rating of 3 stars in Eruboshi Certification

The Eruboshi Certification system was implemented pursuant to the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace.
In 2024, Haseko Corporation satisfied all 5 evaluation standards in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare’s Eruboshi Certification system and attained the highest certification possible of 3 stars (Stage 3 certification). The 5 standards are employment of women, length of continuous employment, working hours and other work style-related matters, proportion of women in management, and diversity of career paths.

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Selected as a “Nadeshiko Brand” in fiscal 2022

Haseko Corporation has been selected as one of the “Nadeshiko Brand” for fiscal 2022 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in cooperation with the Tokyo Stock Exchange as a listed company that excels in the “promotion of women’s activities.”

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Support for balancing work with childcare and nursing care

Aiming for a working environment where employees can actively work in their own way alongside life events such as childbirth, childcare, and nursing care, we make efforts to reinforce a system to support work-life balance and encourage them to use it.
The framework of childcare leave and shortened work hours is maintained at a higher level than those stipulated in legal standards so that employees can take childcare leave until their children reach three years old, and shortened work hours until their children reach the third grade of elementary school. In addition, we provide opportunities for employees to have interviews with HR staff before, during, and after childcare leave to eliminate their concerns during leave and follow up on their future careers. At the interviews, we explain our systems and procedures related to childcare leave and other internal programs, listen to employees’ vision of their workstyle after returning to work, and maintain an environment for sharing corporate updates during leave.
In April 2019, we reinforced systems for balancing work and family by newly establishing and implementing our own systems: “children leave” which enables employees to take a 10-day paid leave per child (under three years old) for childcare purposes; “spouse maternity leave” which enables male employees to take one-day paid leave to attend delivery by their spouses; and “hourly annual leave” which enables employees to take annual leave on an hourly basis equivalent to up to five days per year.
Furthermore, in order to encourage men to participate in raising their children, we are working to achieve a 100% utilization rate of the male employee childcare participation program (childcare leave and spouse maternity leave).
In April 2024, we changed the nursing care system to help employees balance work with nursing care. Employees can now take nursing care leave in installments within a total period of one year, and take 50 days a year of leave for each family member under care. In conjunction, we established a Nursing Care Portal Site for employees and strengthened support systems by centralizing information on nursing care and establishing a consultation service.

Main systems and initiatives

"MOSt Activities" aimed at improving workplace environment on a Group-wide scale

Since fiscal 2005, the Haseko Group has been engaging in "MOSt Activities" with the objective of creating an operating environment in which employees can seek physical and mental fulfillment and demonstrate their capabilities. "MOSt" is the abbreviation of "Move On Step," reflecting our commitment to "steadily engaging in activities by taking one step at a time."
In concrete terms, the “MOSt activities” are being carried out under the initiative of the committees set up for this purpose in each division of Haseko Corporation and each Group company. Committee members selected from both labor and management set a theme or issue specific to their own workplace, discuss ways to solve them, and put them into practice. Information on these activities is shared among secretariat members of all committees on a regular basis and measures that proved effective are adopted at other workplaces as needed, thus helping to improve work environment across the Group.

Initiatives in 2024

In fiscal 2024, we began activities under the slogan “Refresh your mind and body for peak performance!”
We worked to improve productivity and operational efficiency through the use of IT tools, awareness-raising activities for officers and employees, and other initiatives tailored specifically to each committee at Haseko Corporation’s various departments and group companies.
In addition to these committee-led activities, we carried out a range of Group-wide initiatives such as the “My Interval” initiative in which employees are encouraged to take leave and leave work at regular hours to correspond with seasonal fluctuations in the volume of work required, as well as twice-yearly Group-wide No Overtime Day days and company- and department-designated “early finishing and going home early” days, and generative AI study sessions.
We also issue the MOSt Report once a month for the purpose of information sharing on and horizontal rollout of each committee’s activities, to raise awareness among officers and employees.

Realization of "two days off a week" at construction sites

The Japan Federation of Construction Contractors (JFCC) has established the Headquarters for Promoting Two Days Off per Week and formulated the Action Plan to Realize Two Days Off per Week. The JFCC has issued a policy urging companies to promote the taking of two days off per week during the three-month period from July to September 2024. This is to address the gap between industry practice and the industry-wide target of eight days of construction site closures every four weeks and the problem of operating with the maximum allowed amount of overtime work hours. Furthermore, it is expected that taking more leave during summer will lead to higher productivity in view of the extreme temperatures at sites which may lead to a slower pace of work, and will also prevent heatstroke.Haseko Corporation has established 108 designated construction site closure days per year and strongly encourages employees to take 104 days off each year, aiming for 100% achievement of the target of eight days of construction site closures every four weeks in fiscal 2027.

Engagement with foreign workers from partner companies
Global Workers Meeting

The number of foreign workers from partner companies working at construction sites of the Haseko Group is increasing year by year. Based on this situation, HASEKO Corporation holds Global Workers Meetings with an aim to establish engagement with foreign workers and to create a working environment easy for foreign workers to work in. They are led by the Workstyle Reform Subcommittee under the Value Enhancement Activities Committee, which consists of main cooperating companies.

Specifically, the Workstyle Reform Subcommittee members and HASEKO Corporation employees participate and identify the work-related and other problems of foreign workers working on Haseko sites and work to resolve and improve them. The Meetings are also used as opportunities to improve skills through various kinds of information provided by HASEKO Corporation and to deepen solidarity in the workplace through interaction between foreign workers.

The atmosphere of the Global Workers Meeting

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“MOSt Place,” multipurpose spaces for our employees, have been set up in the head office building in Shiba and also in the Hiranomachi building based on the concept of “improving productivity” and “stimulating communication.” It was designed as a space that sparks new ideas and inspirations, a space in which a variety of employees can mix and mingle, and a space where you can chill out. The space can be utilized flexibly, whether for meetings, working remotely or events in after-hours. We aspire to make it a place where each employee can unleash his/her potential and generate innovation.

Creative office in Value Creation Division

In Value Creation Division, which aims to create and verify Haseko Group's future businesses, improve the competitiveness of its products and services, and raise labor productivity, the office space has been designated as a "creative office" as a base to create innovation, the first of its kind in the Haseko Group.
Its concept is “Road Trip/Traveling Office” and it is entirely free address, being designed as an office space aimed at enabling employees to walk around freely in the work area as if they are on a trip, take advantage of the communication that incidentally arises among them and thereby yield steady results.
In addition, we launched a self-managed organization called "Office Design Committee," which is engaged in such initiatives as aesthetic maintenance, promotion of communication, and greater disclosure/transparency of opinions and proposals for improvement of offices in an effort to maintain the creative office.

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