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Establishment of
an Employee-Friendly
Workplace Environment

The Bandai Namco Group is working to create a healthy workplace environment where employees feel a sense of security, aiming to become a company where every employee is highly engaged no matter their stage of life.

Company programs and infrastructure
For employees and their families
Health and productivity management

Support for Employees and Their Families

Expand programs that support employees and their families from various angles

The Bandai Namco Group is working to enhance its programs and systems that support its employees and their families from various angles, aimed at creating a more comfortable work environment.

Examples of Systems

System Overview
Childcare leave
  • Can be taken until the day the child turns two years old.
Childcare support
  • Available until March 31 of the year in which the child completes sixth grade. In addition to shorter working hours, it includes exemption from overtime and late-night work.
Childbirth leave for spouses
  • Employees can take up to five days of paid leave when their spouse gives birth.
Child-rearing flextime system
  • Available until March 31 of the year in which the child completes sixth grade, core time can be adjusted in line with child-rearing circumstances.
Provision of support funds for childbirth and childcare
  • Provision of ¥200,000 at the birth of each of the first and second children.
  • Provision of ¥3,000,000 at the birth of each of the third and subsequent children*.

    *Acquisition of childcare leave for one continuous week or more and submission of a child-rearing report are requirements for the receipt of this support.
Lifestyle-support system
  • Introduced with the objective of establishing supportive working environments for employees in a variety of household circumstances.
  • 30 days of leave as well as shorter working hours/flextime are permitted, in accordance with the reason.

    Examples of reasons
    （1）Truant children
    （2）Infertility treatment
    （3）Family nursing or caregiving for spouses and first and second-degree relatives of employees
    （4）Receiving outpatient care at medical facilities due to disease.

Partnership system
  • In regard to partnerships, leave time determined by company rules and matters recognized by employee benefits, etc., are handled in the same manner as for couples who are married under the legal system.

Note:Some Group companies use different systems.

Group internal commendation system: Bandai Namco Awards

Principal companies in the Bandai Namco Group have introduced performance-linked remuneration frameworks that correlate a company’s operating profit with employee bonuses. In this way, we are encouraging employees to take on challenges. In addition, we have established systems for the proposal of ideas regarding IP, products, and services for Units and companies and other systems. In these ways, we have established frameworks that transcend boundaries between companies and departments and enable employees to make their own proposals. Furthermore, by introducing systems that give recognition to teams and employees for taking on challenges, we are working to establish foundations and a corporate culture that make it easier to address challenges with a positive attitude.

Every year, the Bandai Namco Group hosts the Bandai Namco Awards to recognize the best-performing teams from each year. During the judging, success, creativity, relevance, and consideration for sustainability are deemed important points of the evaluation.

The Recycled Stuffing Introduction Project was recognized for its efforts and won the Best Sustainability Award Grand Prize at the 2024 Bandai Namco Awards.

Awards ceremony
Award-winning team

Hosting family events for employees and their families

The Bandai Namco Group holds events at various locations for employees and their families to enjoy together. In fiscal 2024, events were held at Bandai, Bandai Spirits, Artpresto, Bandai Namco Forge Digitals, Bandai Namco Filmworks, Bandai Logipal, Logipal Express, and other locations.

Bandai Logipal and Logipal Express hold an event called Pal Fest across the country. In addition to a sustainability class led by Jackie from The Bears School, there was also a hands-on Gunpla assembly area and a material recycling demonstration set up at My Plastic Station.

Pal Fest

Creating comfortable work environments

Bandai Namco Filmworks launched the Safety and Security Project in May 2022, aiming to address long working hours and strengthen attendance management. Under the project, employees must apply in advance to work on holidays and employees who have not used up their compensatory leave will receive an automatic email notification. These efforts have led to a steady reduction in overtime work at film production sites where long working hours were the norm.

We have also reorganized and improved our video production process management, introducing a Green Light System that requires each stage of preparation to be completed, from planning to pre-production and production, before proceeding to the next stage. This reduces waiting time due to production delays at each stage, mitigating the burden on subsequent processes, while aiming to optimize working hours and improve work efficiency. Additionally, we have introduced the Owlview System, which digitally visualizes the progress of each episode and the work progress of creators, resulting in a system where delays and problems at each stage of production are constantly shared and addressed by the team, rather than being handled by one person.

Green Light System organizing and improving video production process management

A diagram about the Green Light System for organizing and improving the management of the video production process. Unlike traditional methods, it only allows a project to move on to the next stage after preparations are completed at each stage of planning, pre-production, and production.
Company programs and infrastructure
For employees and their families
Health and productivity management

Fostering a Culture of Respect

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