Approach to DE&I
To create new value, the Link and Motivation Group considers it essential to recognize each person’s individuality and maximize their potential without regard to their specific attributes, and is committed to providing impartial opportunities.
Our policy for environmental management, an issue which currently has minimal impact on our business, is to continuously monitor risks and opportunities and take appropriate measures.
Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion cannot be uniformly measured across companies, but should be appropriately defined according to business content and strategy.
For the Group to achieve sustainable business growth and create new value, it is critical that our human resources, with their diverse talents, personalities and strengths, recognize each other’s strengths and make the most of their abilities. We need to provide them with opportunities to demonstrate their capabilities based on a high level of motivation. In other words, it is important to acknowledge the individuality of each person and their different backgrounds, rather than specific attributes such as gender or nationality.
Based on this approach, we treat each person equally as a professional without making judgments based on specific attributes such as gender or nationality, and strive to maximize each person’s potential.
Promoting the Active Participation of Female Employees
We provide impartial evaluation and promotion opportunities for all employees under a policy of promoting individuals based on their performance and growth, regardless of specific attributes such as gender or nationality. The percentage of women in management positions* was 25.3% as of December 31, 2024 and 25.9% as of December 31, 2025.
The Group provides support for life events through systems for balancing childcare and work. We emphasize an approach of redefining the relationship between the company and the employee as a way to reevaluate mutual expectations in response to changes in personal circumstances, such as marriage, childbirth, childcare and nursing care. Specifically, our work style option system allows for reduced working hours. Employees can choose the work style that best suits them from a wide range of options within the parameters of between six to eight hours a day and three to five days a week. In addition, although Japanese law requires that reduced hours and leave for childcare be available until the child’s third birthday, we make it available until the child’s graduation from junior high school.
By setting and applying various employment classifications like these, we enable flexible work styles that respect employee intentions and desires.
- *Calculated as the percentage of all management positions (excluding officers) held by women, based on definitions established by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Promoting the Employment of Persons with Disabilities
Based on its approach of redefining the relationship between the company and the employee as a way to reevaluate mutual expectations in response to changes in personal circumstances, the Link and Motivation Group creates an environment and support systems that enable all employees to continue working in a way that suits them.
To enable employees with various disabilities to perform their work according to their individual needs, we have established a framework to support flexible work arrangements, including the introduction of the Work Style Option program, which allows employees to choose working hours that suit them, and the promotion of hybrid work, which combines office work and telework.
Promoting the Active Participation of Non-Japanese Employees
We believe that facilitating smooth communication is essential for creating an environment in which non-Japanese employees can fully demonstrate their abilities. To this end, we are promoting multilingual communication within the Group.
Key internal announcements are provided in both Japanese and English, and we have set up an English-language intranet. We also provide simultaneous Japanese–English interpretation at our quarterly Group-wide General Meeting, which is attended by all employees.
Promoting the Active Participation of Senior Employees
Link and Motivation Inc. has not set a mandatory retirement age, enabling employees to continue working regardless of age.
We will continue to upgrade our systems and work environment so that employees can choose flexible working styles aligned with their lifestyles and career goals.
Some Group companies have adopted a mandatory retirement age, but they have introduced reemployment programs to create workplaces where senior employees can continue to demonstrate their skills and expertise.