Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion
The Bandai Namco Group is committed to being a group that demonstrates the concept of “same spirit, diverse talents,” where its companies and employees with varied talents, individual characteristics, and values play an active role. We respect the diversity of our people and adopt a common Groupwide policy for recruitment and promotion focused on factors other than when a person was hired (new graduate or mid-career), or their gender, age, nationality, race, religion, or sexual orientation. We are working to establish systems, programs and a work environment that bring out the best in our diverse pool of human resources and that ensure the physical and mental well-being of our employees at work.
Initiatives for Diversity and Inclusion
Initiatives to facilitate active participation by diverse human resources
The Bandai Namco Group places importance on the individuality and talents of each employee. We strive to diversify our workforce and promote their active participation in the workplace based on the characteristics of each company's business.
With regard to empowering women, we have created a working environment in which our people can play an active role regardless of gender by ensuring fair evaluations according to ability and experience. As a result of this, the number of female managers continues to increase in step with the increased number of female full-time employees.
In addition, all of our companies in Japan have introduced partnership system regulations that make same-sex marriage eligible for congratulatory and condolence payments, special leave, nursing care leave, etc., which were previously limited, by submitting official documents. We also promote understanding through e-learning and seminars, and further stipulate wording in each company's regulations that prohibits harassment and outing against sexual minorities.
We also actively engage in activities internally to raise awareness about gender equality and gender freedom. In April 2023, Bandai Namco Europe held an in-house event with various workshops and activities at its Lyon office with the aim of raising employee awareness of gender equality. More than 100 employees participated.
In addition, with the globalization of our business, the number of locally hired employees is increasing year by year.
Initiatives to foster understanding of disabilities
As part of its in-house activities to raise awareness about diversity and inclusion, the Bandai Namco Group holds various seminars and e-learning as appropriate. In addition to working on awareness-raising activities for employees, Bandai Namco Will, a special subsidiary, launched a website for Group employees called Yuni-nabi in 2022. We offer a variety of information with the aim of providing employees with a correct understanding of disabilities.
Participate in the Abilympics
At Bandai Namco Will, a special subsidiary of the Bandai Namco Group, every year employees with disabilities take part in the Abilympics* competition, where they compete on skills related to their daily work duties.
In November 2022, two Bandai Namco Will staff members who won regional competitions participated in the National Abilympics held at Makuhari Messe. Ichitaro Oshita, who represented Tokyo and participated in the product packing event, took home the Silver Prize following last year's Bronze Prize.
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Official website of the Abilympics
(external website)
A competition in which people with disabilities compete in skills developed in the workplace on a daily basis
Actively employ people with disabilities
Since 2016, Bandai Namco Craft has been collaborating with local schools for the disabled to host hands-on learning in the workplace in order to provide them with an idea of what it's like to be a part of society through work experience. In accompany to this, the company actively employs people with disabilities.
When accepting people with hearing impairments, sign language education is provided to employees of the assigned department and management department to make it one of the means of communication. In addition, brief explanations about fingerspelling and sign language are posted throughout the plant to facilitate communication among employees.
