Health Wellbeing

Our Health Management Policy

As a technology company, Fujitsu recognizes that human resources are its most important capital. To achieve our purposes, we have therefore set “protecting the physical and mental health of our employees and creating an environment where all employees can work positively and healthily, both in mind and body” as a key sustainability issue to be shared globally, which we are promoting in tandem with our health and safety activities as the “Health Wellbeing” activities of a Global Responsible Business (GRB).

In Japan, we have announced the Fujitsu Group Health Statement and are promoting GRB Health Wellbeing activities as health management initiatives. We believe that our efforts to maintain and boost the health of employees and their families and to improve the work environment will lead to higher productivity, invigorate individuals and organizations and enhance human resource retention, and that aiming to create a work environment where each employee can work positively and healthily both in mind and body will help us to fulfill our purposes. Moreover, the results obtained through Fujitsu's health management initiatives will be broadly publicized to society, and through the provision of ICT we will contribute to resolving social issues.

• Fujitsu Group Health Statement and Key Measures

Domestic Structure for Promoting Health Management and Conducting Reviews

All regions and Group companies participate in GRB Health Wellbeing activities in accordance with their local laws and circumstances. At the Sustainability Management Committee that meets every six months, committee members check the progress of activities and the achievement status of targets, deliberate on new activities and report the results to the management council and the Board of Directors.

In Japan, health management is led by the Chief Health Officer (CHO). The CHO heads the Health Management Office, which consists of the Employee Success Unit, the Health Promotion Unit and the Fujitsu Health Insurance Society. The Health Management Office holds regular meetings twice a month to analyze health-related data and issues, set targets and indicators, draw up plans, carry out measures and manage, evaluate and improve progress. The results are regularly reported to the CHO. The Health Management Office plays a central role in the implementation of measures, working together with the Health and Safety Committees in offices and Group companies, occupational health physicians and industrial health and safety staff to urge organizations (division heads, managers, Work Environment Improvement Support Staff) and individuals (employees and their families) to action.

Two meetings have been established to promote health management initiatives: the Central Health and Safety Committee and the Health Management Cooperation Council. The Central Health and Safety Committee reflects the opinions of employees by discussing issues and sharing information with the representatives of labor unions and the representatives from offices and divisions. At the Health Management Cooperation Council, the Health Management Office and corporate, research and business divisions share information in both directions about Fujitsu's health management initiatives and about health management-related business initiatives being carried out by research and business divisions. They encourage the adoption of health management in business while promoting the application of ICT (such as in demonstration experiments).

Targets and Results

Health Wellbeing initiatives are linked to Career & Growth Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing and Social Wellbeing initiatives with the goal of creating an environment where all employees can work positively and healthily while also enabling employees to develop personally, and offering opportunities for them to demonstrate those abilities to the fullest extent. To that end, our goal for 2022 is to have an average score of 71 globally for "work-life balance" and "work environment" in the Engagement Survey, which we are working to achieve in all regions and Group companies.

In Japan, under our aim of creating an environment where all employees can work positively and healthily, we set five indicators about improving productivity, invigorating individuals and organizations, and enhancing human resource retention to serve as final health-related evaluation indicators. To improve and reinforce each indicator, we created a health management strategy map. We are tackling the areas representing the five priority measures on the map, namely

1. Cancer & lifestyle disease countermeasures
2. Mental health countermeasures
3. Oral and dental health measures
4. Health literacy and health awareness improvement, lifestyle improvement, and
5. Work environment development, while performing the PDCA cycle.

• The relation between Work Life Shift working styles, stress and health risks

According to stress checks, the percentage of highly-stressed persons was 11.2% in 2019, 10.0% in 2020 and 9.9% in 2021, showing a trend towards improvement.

An analysis of teleworking rates, highly-stressed persons and health risks shows that the number of highly-stressed persons decreases as the rate of teleworking increases. However there is a U-shaped relationship between overall health risks and teleworking rates. Workload control risks and workplace support risks both increase for the group with low teleworking rates. Workload control risks decrease as the rate of teleworking increases, but when the teleworking rate exceeds 90%, workplace support risk increases. (Graph 1)

An analysis of long overtime hours, highly-stressed persons and health risks shows that workload control risks and overall health risks increase with longer overtime hours. (Graph 2)

The results of this analysis show that stress and health risks can be reduced by creating a hybrid work system by combining the flexible use of time and locations based on work contents and purpose and lifestyles that teleworking offers with the effective use of real-life communication at the office, and by coupling the hybrid work system with a reduction in overtime hours through the proactive application of flexible work structures such as flextime and discretionary systems. Thus we will further promote Work Life Shift as a new working style that allows employees to display even higher productivity and continue to innovate.

• Lifestyle changes and examination finding rates

The lifestyle-related disease finding rates for health examinations in FY2020 were significantly worse than those in FY2019, with BMI at +1.3%, fat at +3.4%, blood sugar at +0.5% and blood pressure at+3.9%. To verify whether this result was influenced by a decrease in physical activity due to changes in lifestyles and working styles caused by the spread of the COVID-19, we compared the number of steps walked daily for FY2019 and FY2020 and divided them into three groups: those where the number had decreased, those where the number had not changed and those where the number had increased. After analyzing the examination finding rate, we confirmed that the finding rates in all examination items in FY2020 were significantly lower for the group where the number of average daily steps had increased compared to the group where the number had reduced or stayed the same. This shows that walking in daily life is effective at preventing and improving lifestyle diseases. We will therefore encourage employees to make exercise a daily habit through activities such as the company-wide "Let's Walk Together" walking event.

These kinds of analysis results are released to all employees through the portal site and internal newsletters along with health dynamics data (health examination data, leaves of absence, etc.) and stress check results.

Major Global Initiatives

In FY2022, the Fujitsu Learning Festival will be organized for the 130,000 global employees and their families. Under the theme "SDGs with Wellbeing," each region and Group company will introduce concrete examples of the Wellbeing initiatives it is involved in and organize seminars related to Wellbeing. During the Festival, a global walking event will be held to help the whole organization to be aware of walking in everyday life. Each step will be connected to a donation that contributes to the SDGs.

Taking steps against cancer involves engaging in prevention through improvement of lifestyle habits, as well as early detection through health checkups and treatment. We promote regular additional screenings for stomach cancer, colorectal cancer, and prostate cancer when employees undergo legally prescribed health checkups, based on age group. In collaboration with the Fujitsu Health Insurance Society, we conduct and support the expenses for gynecological examinations (cervical cancer and breast cancer) for all female employees. In addition, to screen for stomach cancer, the Fujitsu Health Insurance Society runs tests for Helicobacter pylori for 35-year-olds and conducts in-depth examinations on those who test positive.

Additionally, we hold “Cancer Prevention and Support for Balancing Work and Treatment” e-learning seminars for all group employees in order to equip them with accurate knowledge about cancer, and to lead to prevention through improvement of lifestyle habits, as well as early detection and treatment through health checkups. We also provide e-learning materials to employees’ families in cooperation with the Fujitsu Health Insurance Society.

Oral and dental health plays an important role in maintaining and improving health for the whole body while also greatly affecting QOL (quality of life) across a lifetime. Therefore we have set it as an important health issue and we hold activities such as dental examinations and preventive dentistry seminars to promote oral and dental health.

• Dental examinations
  We provide tooth checks (caries and fractures), periodontal pocket measurement and brushing guidance for employees aged 25, 30, 35 and 40 to prompt them to take an interest in oral and dental health from an early age and encourage early treatment and prevention.
• Preventive Dentistry Seminars
  In cooperation with JOF (*8), we hold a preventive dentistry seminar entitled "Preventive dentistry in the Reiwa era from 2019 onwards," to share knowledge on issues such as the etiology of cavities (caries) and periodontal disease, dental examination methods, self-care methods with the aim of KEEP28 (*9).

Through various kinds of health education such as health guidance, e-learning, training for managers and company-wide seminars, through various events about exercise, diet and smoking, and by sharing information through internal newsletters and portal sites, we aim to improve employees' health literacy and health awareness and form healthy habits.

• Health education
  • • Company-wide e-learning: Once a year all employees at Fujitsu and Group companies in Japan are given e-learning on important health topics to provide knowledge and increase their health awareness.
    • Regular employees: Receive education about self-care when joining the company or changing jobs through e-learning.
    • Managers: Receive education about their subordinates' mental healthcare when appointed as managers and once every three years as part of their people management education.
    • Company-wide seminars: Seminars are broadcast to all Group company employees in Japan about topics such as exercise, nutrition, diet, smoking and women's health.
    • Office seminars: Seminars are held on themes such as mental health and health promotion, based on the issues faced by each office.
    • Refer to FY2021 Performance: Health Education for more details
• Health events
  • • A company-wide walking event, “Let's Walk Together”
      To cultivate a habit of exercising in daily life and increase health awareness, Fujitsu and all Group companies in Japan hold a company-wide walking event called "Let's Walk Together" twice a year in spring and fall. Participants compete on an individual and team basis with the average number of steps walked in a month using a smartphone app. There are individual and team incentives for the employees with the highest average number of steps, teams that achieve 6,000 average steps in a day, teams that achieve 8,000 steps daily and other metrics.
      Furthermore, during Fujitsu Learning Festival 2022, a global walking event will be held to help the whole organization to be aware of walking in everyday life. Each step will be connected to a donation that contributes to the SDGs.
    • A quitting smoking promotion event, “Let’s Stop Smoking Together”
      We organize an event where two to five non-smokers form a team with one smoker, who attempts to quit smoking over three months with the support of the team. Along with encouraging people to stop smoking, it provides opportunities for both smokers and non-smokers to think about smoking and health. Teams that successfully get their smoking member to quit are awarded incentives.

    “Let’s Learn About Food Together Day” Column

    • A nutrition education event, “Let’s Learn About Food Together Day”
      We have declared the 19th of every month to be Food Education Day. In addition to introducing healthy recipes using seasonal ingredients and information about health effects via email newsletters, we prepare special menu items using those ingredients at the employee cafeterias all over Japan, and work to improve employee awareness of what they eat.
    • Online fitness
      As working from home becomes the norm in the new normal, we offer a sports club as an online service to encourage employees to stay healthy.
    • Refer to FY2021 Performance: Health Events for more details

Starting from October 2020, Fujitsu and its domestic Group companies have completely banned smoking at all offices to protect employees from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, and in an attempt to reduce the health risks of smokers.

Furthermore, to support efforts by smokers to quit smoking, we also hold seminars so that employees will accurately understand the health effects of smoking, and provide support and subsidies for treatment to quit smoking. In addition, the “Let’s Stop Smoking Together” Challenge, an event held once a year by all domestic group companies where smokers and non-smokers form teams to tackle quitting smoking, has improved awareness of quitting smoking and an attitude of fostering measures against smoking, group-wide and in all workplaces.

For health issues specific to women, we provide education, share information and have established a dedicated consultation window to raise women's health awareness and generate concern and understanding for health issues that women face. We also implement or support the costs of screening for cancers specific to women, all of which is aimed at driving the creation of a workplace where women can work positively.

Fujitsu and its domestic Group companies actively engage in countermeasures to keep employees safe from various infectious diseases by establishing health consultation services and dispensing information, among other initiatives. As preventative measures against infectious diseases, we give seasonal influenza vaccinations at companies, in addition to giving vaccinations to employees stationed overseas which are recommended in each place they will be staying (at company expense). With regard to the issue of rubella, which has been growing in recent years, we are cooperating with local governments to conduct education and public awareness campaigns at offices.

The Fujitsu Group has established a Central Infectious Disease Countermeasure Unit headed by the president to centrally manage all information while the General Affairs Unit, Human Resources Unit and Health Management Unit work together to take measures against COVID-19.

• Consultation
  We have established a dedicated online hotline and email consultation service to respond to employees and their family members who have health concerns. We provide instructions to put them at ease, and so they can take appropriate action and seek medical care. In addition, the Fujitsu Clinic (Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture) handles people who are worried about infection, in conjunction with health care centers and regional specialist medical institutions.
• Providing information and education
  We have established a COVID-19 countermeasure site (Central Countermeasures Unit/Health Promotion Unit). It shares response guidelines for COVID-19, knowledge and the latest information about coronavirus infection, health considerations for teleworking (how to comfortably telework, exercise, diet, smoking, mental health, work environment) and other such information necessary for the mental and physical health of employees and their families.
• Working styles
  We are thoroughly implementing teleworking, which makes it possible to work flexibly without being limited by a place, such as at home, satellite offices or on business trips to help prevent COVID-19 infections.
• "Status of efforts to reduce the number of employees who commute to work by using telework and other means.”
  Job-based vaccination
  To accelerate workplace vaccinations of the COVID-19 vaccine and reduce the burden on local medical institutions, vaccines were administered to approximately 33,000 staff, over 40% of Fujitsu Group employees at four locations (Kawasaki factory, Osaka Hub, Oyama factory, Nagano factory). The vaccinations were performed by company staff only.
  
  
  • About COVID-19 vaccinations

Assessments from Outside the Company

As a company which considers the health management of employees from a management perspective and tackles strategic initiatives to deal with it, Fujitsu was selected as a 2021 Health and Productivity Stock Selection by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the first time, and certified as one of the top 500 enterprises (the White 500) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi, marking its fifth consecutive certification. We regard the health and safety of our employees and their families as one of our key management issues and to that end, we take care to establish robust systems with medical professionals at our offices nationwide, provide health guidance for lifestyle-related diseases, and set up mental health and smoking prevention programs, and these awards are recognition of our results.

In addition, in order to promote health management across the entire group, Representative Director Takahiro Tokita serves as Chief Health Officer (CHO) and disseminates messages to all employees in Japan and overseas. We are also working to have senior management directly discuss the importance of health management and its impact on the company's sustainable growth and business performance by using data-driven health information, together with occupational health staff, so that management personnel will gain a more realistic understanding of health issues.

Among domestic Fujitsu Group companies, three domestic group companies were certified in the White 500 (top 500 enterprises), 9 companies were certified in the large-scale enterprise, and four companies were certified in the small to medium-scale enterprise category.

*Company names are as of the time of certification (as of March 9, 2022).

Fujitsu received an "outstanding corporation award" for the second year in a row from the Cancer Countermeasures Corporate Action Project (*12), which is conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

• Awards in 2021 and earlier
  • March 2021 - Selected as a Health Management Brand for 2021
    October 2021 - Nominated for the Grand Prize at the Women's Body Forum Awards 2020 and received Merit Award
    March 2020 - Received Cancer Countermeasures Partner Award (Information Provision Category), awarded to companies that promote cancer countermeasures

Health Management Promotion Initiatives and Social Contributions

Fujitsu helps to promote health management and solve health issues for all of society by offering and presenting things such as health management and practical cases of health and productivity management in various forms, as well as research results, to places outside the company. In addition, we accept occupational physicians, medical students, nursing students and others for training within the company, and contribute to the human resources development of occupational health staff.

Refer to FY2021 Performance: Social Contribution Initiatives for more information.

Sharing cancer e-learning materials with parties outside the company
Through the Cancer Countermeasure Corporate Action project conducted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare the materials used in the "Cancer Prevention and Support for Balancing Work and Treatment" e-learning seminars held for all Fujitsu and all Group employees in FY2019 are being provided to the project's partner companies and organizations. As of the end of FY2021, 5,845 persons had attended the seminar.

• Cooperating to measure the effectiveness of cancer screening
• Fujitsu is collaborating with specially-appointed Professor Nakagawa of the University of Tokyo Hospital and the National Cancer Center in a demonstration to measure the effectiveness of cancer screening through receptor analysis.
• Joint development of a Migraine Improvement program with the Global Patient Advocacy Coalition of the International Headache Society (IHS-GPAC)
• Refer to FY2021 Performance: Health Management Promotion and Social Contributions for other public announcements.

Health management-related services

• The Fujitsu Group contributes to the health of society as a whole by providing healthcare solutions such as health information solutions, regional medical networks, and solutions for hospitals, clinics and nursing care providers.
• Additionally, to improve people's quality of life and create wellbeing, we will provide the foundation for trust and innovation, and we will strive to connect consumers, medical institutions, companies and governments so as to rebuild consumer-centered societies and industries in order to realize a society where data circulates based on an individual's wish and anyone can use advanced technology.