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Creating Vibrant and Dynamic Workplaces

Expanding employment opportunities for the elderly and differently abled people, and promoting gender equality in the workplace
Programs for helping employees to maintain a good work-life balance
Providing employees with the scope to realize their aspirations in workplaces that also offer safety and security

Diversity in human resources

The NTT Group sees its human resources as the foundation on which its business is built, and focuses on hiring people capable of performing in strategic areas such as IP and broadband technologies and international business in response to changes in the business climate and globalization of the information and communications sector.
We are also committed to expanding employment opportunities for differently abled people. In 2004, we established NTT CLARUTY, a special subsidiary for promoting the hiring of such people. Our employment rate for differently abled people stood at about 1.7%1 as of June 2007, and we shall continue with our efforts to further boost such hiring throughout the NTT Group with the aim of surpassing the level of 1.8% mandated by law.
The NTT Group has since 1999 also maintained a continuing employment system that allows retirees to continue to work until the age of 65 if they wish. Numerous people have used this system to contribute their accumulated experience and skills to our companies.
The NTT Group is also promoting gender equality to provide equal opportunity in the workplace to both men and women. Yearly gains have been made in the number of women recruited and occupying management positions, and with the establishment of a Diversity Promotion Office in October 2007, we are working to ensure that women have even more opportunity to realize their potential in the future.
Many non-Japanese work as either full-time employees or postdoctoral researchers2 at NTT Laboratories. There is also a program in place to invite guest researchers from overseas, providing opportunity for a variety of prominent researchers, and there are many non-Japanese participating in internship programs as well.

Figures for wholly owned NTT Group companies, as well as three listed companies: NTT DoCoMo, NTT DATA, and NTT Urban Development
Contract employees with doctorates

Employment in the NTT Group
The five core group companies are: NTT EAST, NTT WEST, NTT Communications, NTT DATA, and NTT DoCoMo
As of March 31, 2007
As of April 1, 2007

Achieving a good work-life balance

To help NTT employees maintain a good balance between home and career, we have long offered child care and nursing care benefits that go beyond legally mandated levels, and as of 2007, we enhanced child care benefits in various ways, including extending eligibility for reduced working hours to the end of the fiscal year in which the child enters third grade as opposed to first grade. To encourage NTT employees to take advantage of these benefits, we have created an NTT Group Child Care and Family Care Support site on the NTT intranet that provides a comprehensive range of information on both NTT programs and government-operated social insurance programs. We also provide online/distance learning courses and information about NTT business developments and industry trends to employees on leave to help them make a smooth return to work.
With the declining birthrate and increasing aging of the Japanese population, we have instituted a new family allowance system that provides additional benefits to employees based on number of dependents without placing a cap on that number.
Based on principles espoused in Japan's Law for Measures to Support the Development of the Next Generation, we will continue to develop convenient and effective support programs in the creation of a vibrant and dynamic workplace.

Examples of NTT Group family benefit programs

Developing a skilled and motivated workforce

In April 2006, the NTT Group revised its pay system to place even more priority on personal performance with the aim of further boosting employee motivation.
In addition to our established systems for training evaluators and providing employees with feedback on their personal performance evaluations, we are seeking to enhance the impartiality of our performance evaluation system and employee satisfaction with it through introducing multifaceted evaluation, using case studies to illustrate what is expected of successful employees, as well as providing training and online guidance to help employees to better understand how our personnel and pay systems work.
We feel that the above enhancements to our pay system will create a better motivated, better disciplined workforce, boosting both individual employee capabilities and our overall business performance.
We provide each and every employee with the opportunity to independently develop their abilities in accordance with their own career plans, offering a range of field-specific group training, e-learning materials, online/distance learning courses, in-house certification of skill levels, and support for the earning of qualifications. In order to provide ambitious employees with the opportunity to seek new challenges, we run in-house recruitment programs such as NTT Group Job Challenge and NTT Group Venture.

This is a photograph of a poster promoting the NTT Group Venture program.

This is a screenshot of the NTT Group Job Challenge intranet web page providing information on ability development programs.

A work place where everyone feels safe and secure

Occupational safety

All NTT Group companies recognize the importance of proactively implementing occupational safety programs to prevent accidents in the workplace. Work conditions and standard operation manuals are constantly under review, and case studies are used to inform employees and maintain awareness of occupational safety issues. If an accident should take place, the NTT Group performs an internal review of conditions, contributing factors, and measures for preventing recurrence, and promptly shares this information with all Group companies. We make every effort to ensure that our employees are well educated about safety issues, are constantly reminded of the importance of workplace safety, and are able to apply their knowledge in the prevention of accidents. Some of our facilities also hold thorough safety inspections on a monthly basis.

Health management

Recognizing the importance of proper employee health management, including the prevention, early detection and treatment of illness, NTT Group companies provide their employees with individualized health management counseling and encourage personal health management based on the results of comprehensive medical examinations. NTT considers mental health to be a particularly important issue, and Group companies provide preventive programs such as mental health consultation through the NTT intranet, outside counseling, and mental health seminars. Emphasis is also placed on maintaining good communication with employees in the workplace as a means of early detection of stress and other changes in mental wellbeing.

Employee benefits

The NTT Group has implemented a wide range of social welfare policies and benefits that are intended to provide security and ensure that its employees are able to devote themselves wholeheartedly to their duties from the time they join an NTT Group company until they retire. Employees are able to take advantage of these policies and benefits in accordance with their own personal life plans.

We provide a cafeteria plan enabling employees to select from a wide range of social welfare plans that match individual lifestyles.
We provide a wide range of information and educational programs regarding the design of personal life plans.
Company dormitories and housing are available throughout Japan for employees posted to new workplaces as a result of transfers, etc.
Employees may utilize any of several health management programs, including periodic examinations and counseling.
Various asset accumulation plans are available, including employee savings schemes and employee stock plans.
Company cafeterias, condolence and congratulatory allowances, and other lifestyle support programs are provided for employees.