• Pregnancy and prenatal and postnatal leave/Childcare leave

  A system that allows employees to take pregnancy leave (20 days), prenatal leave (6 weeks), postnatal leave (8 weeks), and childcare leave (until the child turns two years old/interruptible).

• Nursing care leave/extended leave

  A system that allows employees to take nursing care leave (10 days per year) and extended nursing care leave (2 years in total/interruptible).

• Working on chosen days

  A system that allows employees to choose to work on between 3 and 4.5 pre-determined days a week.

• Short working hour system

  A system that allows employees to work 90 minutes less than the standard working hours (9:00～17:15).

• Flextime system

  A system that allows employees to determine their own work start time and work finish time if coming to work during the standard working hours is difficult.

• Working from home

  A system that allows employees to work from home if commuting to work is difficult.

• Maternity leave and follow-up training after return to work from maternity leave

  ITOCHU provides pre-maternity leave guidance prior to maternity leave, a three-person interview prior to return to work from maternity leave, and follow-up training after return to work from maternity leave.

• Babysitter subsidies

  A system under which employees who use babysitters are eligible for subsidies from government and welfare services.

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  Our initiatives to support the retention and active participation of diverse human resources are also highly rated in objective assessments.

• "I-Kids" childcare center for employees

  ITOCHU opened I-Kids, a childcare center for its employees near its Tokyo Headquarters, in January 2010. Given the recent lack of authorized nurseries in local communities which has created a situation in which employees are prevented from returning to work from childcare leave as well as changing circumstances both within and surrounding the Company, such as the increase in the number of female employees and working couples, ITOCHU decided to establish a nursery to minimize factors that might hinder employees from continuing their careers and to motivate employees to continue working. ITOCHU is actively working to enable more of our diverse workforce to stay and perform at their best, by offering an environment that encourages a focus on work with greater peace of mind.

  

In April 2018, we opened the Hiyoshi Dormitory, with approximately 360 units, bringing together unmarried male employees who had been scattered across four locations in the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Whilst providing a comfortable living environment in which employees have their own private space, Hiyoshi Dormitory is a new type of dormitory based on the design concept “under the same roof.” Accordingly, the dormitory functions as a place for the "development of a human network vertically, horizontally and diagonally" and the "training of young employees," allowing residents to communicate in-depth with their peers and superiors through dormitory life and to freely discuss concerns and worries from the start of their working lives and learn about the business of other departments. The dormitory is aiming to create an environment in which employees voluntarily reform their work styles and improve their health based on corporate policies such as the morning-focused working system and health management. For example, compared with existing dormitories, it shortens commuting time to around 30 minutes, serves nutritionally balanced breakfasts and dinners in the cafeteria, and provides exercise opportunities in partnership with a nearby fitness club.
For unmarried managerial-track female employees, ITOCHU also offers two dormitories for female employees.