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.
Maintaining and Improving the Health of Employees
Employee health management at the Bandai Namco Group
The Bandai Namco Group aims to work together with people around the world to continue creating a future for everyone where people and societies are connected with dreams, fun and inspiration. To this end, we believe that it is essential for every employee working in the Group to continue to fully demonstrate their own strengths and abilities.
Based on the idea that “enabling employees to work in good health is a fundamental and important asset for both individual employees and the Company,” we have established the following basic policy on health management.
- Promotion of autonomous health management
We develop and support employees who can manage their own health. - Development of working environment
We will create an environment where employees can work comfortably.
In addition, with the aim of supporting employees’ autonomous health management, the Health Promotion Office, which has full-time industrial health staff (industrial physicians and public health nurses), the personnel function departments of each company, and each health insurance association work together to manage the health of employees.
Main duties of the Healthcare Team
- Encouragement of employees to undergo regular health checks and follow-up after these checks
- Implementation of stress checks and follow-up after these checks
- Interviews of employees with prolonged working hours
- Mental health care and patient services
- Health management services
- Health improvement measures (implementation of health measures tailored to the needs of each company, vaccinations in the workplace, etc.)
System Supporting Autonomous Health Management
FOCUS
Recognized as 2024 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization (Large Enterprise Category)
Bandai Namco Entertainment and Bandai Namco Studios were certified in the 2024 KENKO Investment for Health (Large Enterprise Category). Moving forward, we will continue to work in unity with the management and human resources departments of our Group companies to strengthen initiatives aimed at promoting employee health.
Indicators for employee health maintenance and improvement
The Bandai Namco Group has established various initiatives to maintain and improve the health of its employees. Each Group company confirms the status of achievement and implements additional measures as necessary.
We have been conducting stress checks since 2008, before the revision of the Industrial Safety and Health Act, and all Group employees are encouraged to undergo these checks. The results are used for primary prevention of mental health disorders and other purposes. In 2023, the uptake rate was 98.9%, indicating we maintain a high rate for the entire Group.
Since COVID-19 was reclassified as Category 5 infectious disease, each subsidiary has adopted different approaches, with some continuing to allow employees to work from home and others switching to an in-office system. As a result, the working styles of employees across the Bandai Namco Group are becoming more diverse. Stress checks also help us to see the impact of these changes on employees’ mental health.
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Bandai Namco Group Personnel Data
Indicators for Employee Health Maintenance and Improvement (FY2023 Results)
Mental health services for employees
The Bandai Namco Group is enhancing its employee mental health care system, led by the Healthcare Team. We are also working on early detection and prevention of disorders through stress checks and other measures.
Supporting employees with mental health disorders to return to work through the Healthcare Team
The Healthcare Team plays a central role in providing support for employees with mental health disorders to return to work. Main Group companies also have sub-offices of the Healthcare Team, where industrial health nurses are stationed to provide daily health consultations.
To respond to the diversification of working styles (introduction of telecommuting, etc.), health consultations are not limited to face-to-face interviews. We have set up consultation desks by email and telephone, and online interviews via video conferencing are also offered.
For these services, we thoroughly protect the privacy of employees so that they can discuss their worries and anxieties with peace of mind.
Workplace improvement activities using aggregate results of stress checks (group analysis)
For the purpose of visualizing the status of employees, stress check results are aggregated and analyzed according to department, team, age, and position. The results are also shared with each department as feedback. In addition, for departments with particularly high stress levels, Healthcare Team staff and public health nurses interview individual employees and set up opportunities for discussion with the heads of their departments to share issues and consider improvement measures.
Example Workflow of Returning to Work from a Mental Health Disorder
Initiatives to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
The Bandai Namco Group offers in-house vaccinations every year before the seasonal influenza season. In fiscal 2023, approximately 2,600 employees were vaccinated at five sites in the Tokyo metropolitan area. This system has been well received by employees because it allows easy access to vaccinations in the company during working hours and because vaccinations are offered at a lower price thanks to subsidies from the health insurance association. Through these initiatives, we not only maintain the health of our employees but also create an environment where they can work with peace of mind.
Health Festa
We regularly hold events where employees can check their physical condition in a fun way to encourage them to take an interest in their own health.
Since the checks, such as body composition analysis and posture balance checks, are done with equipment that employees do not usually have the opportunity to use, employees show their results to their colleagues and get excited, and many enjoy participating every time.
We will continue to hold interesting and entertaining events to support employees’ health.
