Employee Engagement

To achieve high productivity and sustainably improve corporate value, it is important to create a personnel system and workplace where all employees can feel motivated and maximize their individual capabilities. Therefore, Shin-Etsu Chemical conducted an employee awareness survey, and based on the results of the analysis, aims to further improve engagement so that more employees can feel motivated in their work.

In 2022, we conducted an employee awareness survey targeting employees working at Shin-Etsu Chemical in order to help create a more rewarding workplace. In the survey, we asked about items such as compliance, customer orientation, penetration of management philosophy, future prospects of the company, personnel system, career outlook, workload, work environment, and relationship with superiors.

The response rate was 86.5%, and the analysis showed that our employees have a high awareness of compliance. Using the results of this survey as a reference, we will continue to make efforts to improve the strengths of our company and improve the points that need to be improved, so that more employees can find job satisfaction.

The Shin-Etsu Chemical Group always places the highest priority on ensuring the stable employment of its employees. We believe we can grow when employees feel secure in their jobs, do good work, and achieve good results. Based on this idea, we are working to improve the working environment and enhance support systems so that employees can balance work and family life without leaving their jobs due to life events such as childbirth, childcare, and nursing care.

The Group supports employees' childbirth and childcare. The Company has published the "Childbirth and Childcare Guidebook," which summarizes the governmental systems and procedures related to childbirth and childcare. Employees can use the company's parental leave system for children up to three years old. About 30 employees on average use the parental leave system in the company and consolidated companies in Japan. In addition, we grant a paid leave of five days to an employee whose spouse gives birth. Employees are allowed to use the short-time work system, which shortens their working hours for a maximum of two hours a day. This system can be used until their children graduate from elementary school. Furthermore, we will promote use of the teleworking system. Childcare is supported according to local laws and regulations in overseas Group companies.

The Group has a nursing care leave system as shown in the chart below. The system enables employees to work in the company while caring for elders.

The "Nursing Care Guidebook" is issued in which all of the necessary information on our nursing care system and care insurance is provided. Furthermore, we started health care and nursing support services in FY2014 to provide counseling by external experts.

The Group aims to raise awareness about managing working hours across the Company, eliminate excessive working hours, and create highly productive workplaces. To this end, we are proactively introducing a system to accurately track working hours through PC logs and other sources. In addition, we are promoting the development of systems and working environments that enable flexible and highly productive work styles, such as the flextime system and telecommuting.

If the annual paid leave granted in accordance with labor regulations has expired without being taken, a certain number of days can be treated as saved holidays. Employees may use these saved holidays for nursing care, for injury or illness, for volunteer work for regional disasters, or for donating organs or bone marrow transplants.

The company engages in various dialogues with the Shin-Etsu Chemical Labor Union to promote mutual understanding between labor and management. The Central Labor-Management Meeting is held once a month at the head office and is attended by top management. They engage in thorough discussions with the labor union on subjects such as the management policy, overview on individual businesses, and personnel systems. Each business site also holds a monthly local labor meeting with the local branch of the Shin-Etsu Chemical Labor Union.

Repeated dialogues and discussions between labor and management deepen mutual understanding and trust and facilitate the expansion of business operations in which staff and management can come together to respond quickly to the changing business environment.