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Driving Diversity

Advancing the Careers of Female Employees

PHC Corporation is developing measures to promote women’s participation and advancement in the workplace from three angles: reforming the corporate culture, transforming managers’ mindsets, and embracing motivation of female employees. We encourage our employees to leverage support systems such as work-from-home and flexible working hours in order to flexibly accommodate diverse lifestyles that allow for childcare, and other needs. We have a mentoring system for selected members and roundtable discussions with the top management to achieve long-term career development for female employees and embrace their motivation. In addition, to accomplish a change in the consciousness and mindsets of managers, we incorporate diversity as a theme into our training and seminars.

TOPIC: “Eruboshi” Certification

PHC Corporation received “Three-star” certification, the highest level of “Eruboshi” from Japan’s Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare on July 14, 2017. This system certifies companies that are recognized as excellent in the implementation of activities to promote the advancement of women under the women’s Advancement Promotion Act. We received the certification as satisfying the criteria in all five categories of ““recruitment,” “continued employment,” “working hours,” “ratio in management positions” and “career diversity.”

Recruitment of Diverse Talents

Diversity is one of the most important values of PHC Group, and we actively recruit our employees who have different views, experiences, and lifestyles. After joining the company, each employee is encouraged to perform an active role and grow their talents. To help employees fulfill their potential, we have established systems including career interviews with their managers.

The number of newly hired employees at PHC Holdings Corporation/PHC Corporation

	FY2018	FY2019	FY2020
Regular Employees hired	53	83	87
Mid-career hires (included in the above)	46	64	74
The ratio of mid-career hires	86.8%	77.1%	85.1%

Leveraging global talent pool

PHC Group operates businesses in various countries around the world, and our employees have a wide range of origins. Based on our mission of creating healthcare solutions that have a positive impact and improve the lives of people, we are strengthening our management on a global scale to become the leading provider in the field of global healthcare.

We recognize that the recruitment and development of human resources to respond to the changing global business environment is an essential management task. The PHC Group focuses on cross-border exchanges of employees among the group companies, not only the transfer of employees from Japan to overseas group companies but also the transfer of employees of overseas group companies to Japan, and the recruitment of diverse talents regardless of age, gender, nationality, or other factors.

We also accept interns from overseas universities on regular basis. This contributes to the increasing acceptance of diversity among employees, the encouragement of international exchange, and the development of human resources on a global level.

Employment of People with Disabilities

The PHC Holdings Corporation established a special-purpose subsidiary in 2015 to improve the employment rate of people with disabilities. The parent company and the special-purpose subsidiary work in tandem to promote the employment of people with disabilities. We aim to be a company where all group employees can work with pleasure by sharing the jobs in group companies that fit the characteristics of people with disabilities working in the special-purpose subsidiary.

TOPICS：Employment of People with Disabilities

The PHC Holdings Corporation established PHC Associates as a special-purpose subsidiary and increased the employment rate of people with disabilities in the group companies, which had fallen to 1%, to the statutory target of 2% in one year. The company’s employees engage in wide variety of work, including cleaning of the PHC Group facilities and laundry of dust-free garments, transporting and sorting of production waste materials and resource waste from various departments on the premises, setting up PCs for the group employees, preparation work for production processes, and delivery of postal and internal mail and items within the business premises. In the future, the scope of the operations will further expand along with the creation of new ones. A mutually appreciating rapport has been created in which PHC Group employees can focus on their core business and PHC Associates employees can work alongside Group employees in a unified manner. With the goal of increasing the employment rate of 3%, PHC Associates, together with its parent company, aims to provide a place where people with disabilities in the local community can work with peace of mind.

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