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.
Development of Company Programs and Infrastructure
Expand Company programs and support
The Bandai Namco Group is working to establish environments so that diverse human resources can work while remaining healthy in body and mind. To create a supportive work environment for all employees, Group companies have established various systems aligned with their business formats. These include regulations for ensuring a work-friendly environment for every employee, as well as flexible working arrangements such as flextime systems, discretionary work systems, shorter working hours, and staggered shifts. In addition to regular physical checkups and stress checks, within the Group Administrative Headquarters of Bandai Namco Holdings we have assigned a person in charge of measures to address long working hours. By establishing environments in which employees can work with peace of mind, we are striving to enhance employee satisfaction.
In accordance with the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bandai, Bandai Namco Amusement, and MegaHouse have received certification from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (Kurumin Certification) in recognition of their support of childrearing. In addition, in accordance with the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Bandai, and Bandai Namco Business Arc received the Eruboshi Certification a company with excellent initiatives in promoting the participation and advancement of female employees in the workplace. Furthermore, in the 2024 KENKO Investment for Health (Large Enterprise Category), Bandai Namco Entertainment and Bandai Namco Studios have been certified.
Moving forward, we will continue to work in unity with the management and human resources departments of our Group companies to enhance workplace environments that are easy for employees to work in and to strengthen initiatives aimed at promoting employee health.
| External evaluation | Group companies that have been certified or evaluated |
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KENKO Investment for Health |
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Kurumin Certification |
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Eruboshi Certification |
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Initiatives supporting ambitious human resources
Principal companies in the Bandai Namco Group have introduced performance-linked remuneration frameworks that correlate a company’s operating profit with employee profit sharing. 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.
Support employees’ career planning and development
At the Bandai Namco Group, we established interviews with supervisors and annual career planning along with opportunities to apply for a desired transfer anywhere within the Group, with the aim of supporting the autonomous career development of employees and encouraging them to plan their future and set goals.
We also hold various business contests to solicit ideas for new products, services, and IP. We are committed to creating opportunities for employees to take notice of their aptitude and motivation to support career planning for the future.
Focus on improving the skills of and promoting part-time workers and contract employees
At Bandai Namco Amusement, which runs amusement facilities across Japan and delivers play as real-life experiences, we are working to enhance the skills of the part-time workers and contract employees who support facility operations and actively promote them.
We introduced the Career Challenge System to create an environment where part-time workers and partner employees find their work appealing and can play active roles with enthusiasm. The system sets a grade for each role and aims for part-time workers and partner employees to raise their rank through regular evaluations. These employees must pass a companywide standardized exam to move up to the next rank. Bandai Namco Amusement not only encourages these employees to take the exam but also provides assistance to help them pass, which serves as an opportunity to enhance their skills beyond work.
Furthermore, we have introduced an employee category called Facility Professional Full-Time Employee. In principle, these are employees who specialize in facility management work, starting with store manager duties, in a way that is closely tied to the location of their choice, such as the community where they grew up. By actively promoting them to Facility Professional Full-Time Employee, we are providing opportunities for part-time workers and contract employees to advance their careers.
Conducting engagement surveys for the Group’s employees
Group companies in Japan and around the world began conducting annual engagement surveys starting in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2023. These surveys cover such topics as “job motivation and desire to contribute to the company,” “level of understanding and adoption of the Purpose,” and “diversity and inclusion.”
Based on observations made each year, we implement initiatives to increase the engagement of employees on a Groupwide basis, and advance the establishment of environments that enable diverse, highly individual human resources to work energetically and have active careers.
Home Field Program to opt out of job transfers
Bandai Namco Amusement launched its Home Field Program in fiscal 2023. This program applies to full-time employees working in retail stores, and, in principle, does not involve transfers (except for employees who specifically request one*). We will continue to offer this program as an initiative to create a new community-based working style that stabilizes employees’ living arrangement by taking advantage of the strength of the company’s nationwide operations.
*Of the full-time employees (275) in the applicable departments, approximately 42% (115) chose the conventional nationwide work preference program (as of September 2024).
Improving the work environment
The Bandai Namco Group implements various measures to promote internal communication and improve the work environment.
Bandai Namco Filmworks holds seasonal events such as summer festival and autumn cultural festival. In fiscal 2023, attendance at the cultural festival reached a cumulative total of 1,000 people. We also hold themed health events on physical fitness and healthy age measurement to maintain and promote employee health and improve communication.
My Cup Program
The Bandai Namco Group is taking action to encourage employees to bring their own reusable drinkware to reduce the amount of paper cups and plastic bottles used.
As part of this measure, Bandai Spirits handed out drinkware to approximately 800 employees, which are made from “ECOPLA” using recycled plastic model kits. In addition, Bandai Namco Business Arc provided 240 employees with original drinkware to reduce the amount of paper cups used.
The cafeteria on the 14th floor of Bandai’s headquarters and the Marche at the Miraikenkyusho offer limited time discounts to employees who bring their own water bottle, and they also use straw-less cups*.
Bandai Namco Holdings China and its subsidiaries also hold My Cup Day on every Friday. The company does not provide paper cups and encourages employees to bring and use their own drinkware.
*A cup with a spout on the lid so that it is easy to drink without a straw.
Obtain public certifications evaluating work environments in logistics
Logipal Express strives to ensure that it provides services that prioritize safety and security through a workplace where employees can work with peace of mind. As part of this, 24 of the company’s sales and distribution offices have acquired a two-star rating under the Comfortable Workplace Certification System administered by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
The Comfortable Workplace Certification System was established in 2020 as part of comprehensive efforts to address the shortage of drivers in the automobile transportation business (truck, bus, and taxi businesses). By visualizing the efforts of each business operator to improve the workplace environment, the system aims to improve impressions among job seekers and encourages them to find employment as drivers through cooperation between the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
We will continue to create a work environment where employees can work with peace of mind and provide services that put safety and security first.
To learn more about the system, click the link below.
Comfortable Workplace Certification System (external website available in Japanese only)
