The Company supports and upholds the international norms of the UN International Bill of Human Rights, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work. In addition, the Company will fulfill its responsibility to respect human rights through internal rules and Employees’ Code of Conduct that all partners (employees) must adhere to, which stipulates the respect for basic human rights and principles that prohibit any discriminative treatment. We uphold equal opportunity and respect for diversity in accordance with the Venture Spirit Declaration as a member of the GMO Internet Group, which states that “we do not tolerate prejudice on the grounds of race, nationality, gender, educational background, language, religion, or any other factors. We value people for their ability and merits.” Furthermore, the Company strives to secure fair and equitable labor conditions by convening forums to foster mutual understanding with partners when necessary.
The source of a company’s comprehensive capabilities and competitiveness is determined by the diversity of its human resources and how well these are leveraged. To realize the aim of sustainable growth, it is important to recruit talent and establish talent development programs to raise the capability of all partners in order to realize our Mission, resolve social challenges through innovative creativity, and create corporate value.
Recruitment activities are based on that individual’s comprehensive abilities of thoughts/opinions, passion, and capability and does not consider gender, education, science-oriented or humanities/arts-oriented nor nationality.
Unit | FY2020 | FY2021 | FY2022 | |||
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No. of partners (Consolidated) | Persons | 625 | 714 | 799 | ||
of which, no. of women partners | Persons | 226 | 240 | 244 | ||
% | 36.8 | 36.2 | 30.6 | |||
of which, women managers | Persons | 17 | 22 | 19 | ||
Total number of new recruits (Consolidated) | Persons | 123 | 105 | 154 | ||
of which, new graduates | Persons | 30 | 23 | 28 | ||
of which, women new graduates | Persons | 8 | 10 | 8 | ||
Employee turnover rate (Consolidated) | % | 6.1 | 7.2 | 8.1 | ||
Non-full time employees (Consolidated) | Persons | 17 | 21 | 18 | ||
% | 2.7 | 3.1 | 2.2 | |||
Employee ratio of disabled persons (Consolidated) | % | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.3 | ||
Average years of employment (Non-consolidated) | Years | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||
Average annual wages (Non-consolidated) | Age | 34.3 | 35.3 | 35.4 | ||
Average annual wages (Non-consolidated) | Millions of yen | 686 | 955 | 903 | ||
Percentage of paid leave users | % | 66.0 | 58.5 | 69.2 | ||
Number of child care leave users | Male | persons | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
Female | persons | 18 | 21 | 18 | ||
Percentage of child care leave users | Male | % | 12.5 | 38.4 | 40.9 | |
Female | % | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
Return rate after childcare leave | Male | % | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
Female | % | 88.2 | 84.6 | 95.0 | ||
Number of family-care leave users | persons | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
Percentage of health checkups received | % | 100 | 100 | 100 | ||
Total training hours undergone by partners | Hours | 17,644 | 21,301 | 23,600 | ||
Average hours of training per partner | Hours | 32.1 | 37.6 | 38.2 | ||
Total cost for training | Thousands of yen | 10,960 | 10,870 | 16,620 | ||
Average training cost per partner | Thousands of yen | 19 | 19 | 26 |
As a member of the GMO Internet Group, "GMO-ism" including the founding principle of “Venture Spirit Declaration” is used in new recruit and management level training, and shared among all partners (employees)by reciting or reading it periodically at meetings and gatherings to apply this principle to steer our conduct.
Based on the belief that "people determine the company", the Company works to enhance the working environment for partners' personal growth and the full realization of their potential that manifests in the business' growth.
Based on the concept that a company should be the platform for individual growth, implement initiatives to continuously carry out workstyle reforms, including the establishment of proprietary talent development programs and welfare benefits;
share its vision with all partners to foster organizational growth; and provide the means to fully deploy its talent. Thanks to these efforts, the Company was certified as a Great Place to Work Certification for the 9th consecutive time in July 2023, in the survey conducted by Great Place to Work® Institute Japan.
Selected as the best company nine times in a row in the “Great Place to Work”
In March 2022, the company received the "Kurumin" certification from the Director of the Tokyo Labor Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, under the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children, for corporates that support child-raising, in recognition of our efforts to help partners balance work and child-raising, including the revision of staggered office hours and revision of the scheme for short working hours, and implementation of subsidy for babysitter use.
In addition, building a work environment to enable long-term career-building and establishing specialized consultation centers such as for careers, maternity and paternity leave, has resulted in the active appointment of women to managerial positions. As a result of such initiatives, the Company received the highest 3-star “Eruboshi” certification for its promotion of empowerment of women from the Director of the Tokyo Labor Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, in July 2023.
In order for the Company achieve its purpose of "Pursue both spiritual and material prosperity by contributing to the advancement and progress of society," it is indispensable for partners, our foremost colleagues, to grow and unleash their full potential sustainably. The Company therefore supports various programs on "Diet," "Healing," "Movement" and "Medicine" for the maintenance and improvement of health of our partners to express our sincere wish for all partners to achieve happiness.
The Company has been certified as a Health and Productivity Outstanding Organization 2023 by The Nippon Kenko Kaigi, an organization administered by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Trade (METI) on March 2023, in recognition of the Company’s initiatives to maintain and improve health, as highlighted above.
Certified as Health and Productivity Outstanding Organization 2023 (Large Enterprise Category)
In addition to a 100% achievement of annual health checkups, the six initiatives consisting of ① responding to the annual health checkup results, ② building an environment conducive to healthiness, ③ nutrition and food, ④ exercise, ⑤ non-smoking and, ⑥ mental health, are indispensable in supporting a healthy and active lifestyle of partners. In recognition of these initiatives, the Company has been awarded the Silver Certificate for “excellent health company” from the Tokyo Federation of the National Federation of Health Insurance Societies.
The Company has established a whistle-blower system to thoroughly implement compliance. The Company has established a system to appropriately respond based on the results of the investigation that is carried out in a fair and objective manner while securing the anonymity and secrecy of the whistle-blower. In addition, the Risk & Compliance Division conducts harassment prevention training periodically to all partners including managerial level staff as well as training for taking the appropriate response when a harassment report has been filed.
The basic policy is to distribute wages that not only comply with minimum wage standards of that country/region where the business activity takes place, but also for wages to be competitive and exceed the living wage level.
The Company has initiated the "No.1 & STEAM Personnel Recruitment: The New Recruit Annual Salary \7.1Million Program" for the starting wages for new graduates, in order to attract personnel with the highest potential among new graduates.
The Company strives to find harmony with the community, both local and global, as a good corporate citizen and also strives to sustainably raise corporate value through the relationship of trust built with our stakeholders. In addition, the Company endeavors to create a sustainable society by actively promoting social contribution for the realization of a prosperous and comfortably livable global community. All the consolidated global companies of GMO-PG will work to deepen the contribution to the priority areas of international exchanges (community contribution), education (talent development), and environment, and not just on economic contribution, including involving employee participation in these endeavors.
As a member of the GMO Internet Group, we uphold the principle of conduct of Venture Spirit Declaration, which stipulates that “We aim to redefine the industry and foster a vibrant Internet culture. We believe in the importance of contributing to society and as a group, we continually seek to inspire enthusiasm in our customers and put smiles on their faces.”
The Company is promoting investments and loans to FinTech companies advancing financial inclusion and thereby contributing to the local community primarily in Southeast Asia and India. Additionally, the Company strives to contribute to the advancement of small-to-medium sized business operators and improving living standards of the middle class by providing services such as P2P lending platform, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), microfinance, and other financial services that leverage technology.
The Company carried out workplace vaccination drive for partners and their family members, vendors, and members of local business community by collaborating with GMO Internet Group according to the government’s policy regarding workplace vaccination for COVID-19.
In addition, the Company is working to revitalize the local community by developing a cashless environment for the local area and its business operators and is partnering with local governments and local businesses where offices are located to carry out environmental beautification activities such as cleaning on a regular basis.
Provide impact finance to FinTech companies (microfinance) that promote financial inclusion
The Company is actively recruiting highly skilled local talent in order to expand the Payment Processing Business and Money Service Business in the 8 countries spanning Japan, Asia, and North America. In addition, the Company is working to localize business operations through local procurement of the necessary services required to expand our businesses, such as collaborations with the local financial institutions and payment processing companies.