Creating telework opportunities and other new work arrangements using ICT
The NTT Group is actively promoting distribution of employment information as well as contributing to the creation of teleworking, SOHO, and other new forms of employment that utilize ICT as solutions to an increasingly volatile employment market and the need to develop employment opportunities regardless of age or disability.
Home-based OCN call center staff positions offer baby boomers and others more employment opportunities
NTT Com CHEO conducts training and certification testing related to the Internet and the configuration and use of computers. People who have achieved IT skills certification are hired as CAVA (.com Advisor & Valuable Agent) staff who work as home-based call center staff for OCN, an NTT Communications Internet service provider.
In the latter half of fiscal 2008, we created more opportunities for people throughout the country to take part in CAVA training through home-based training via the Internet, and as a result, the proportion of employees at least 60 years old newly contracted as CAVA staff reached 10% in fiscal 2008, double the proportion of fiscal 2007, meaning that we were able to provide more employment opportunities to elderly people in an employment market rapidly filling up with retiring baby boomers.
Call center staff working from home
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Managing a virtual factory for those who face difficulty commuting to work
NTT NEOMEIT, an NTT WEST Group company, manages a virtual workplace called Digital Map Virtual Factory in which staff in scattered group offices and teleworkers work together to create and edit digital maps via a broadband network. Since its establishment in July 2003, the Digital Map Virtual Factory has been contributing to the expansion of employment opportunities for those who face difficulties commuting to a workplace such as people with disabilities and those who are raising small children.
Virtual Factory teleworker
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Sponsoring speaking engagements to promote recruitment and employment of people with disabilities
NTT CLARUTY is a special subsidiary* of the NTT Group that distributes information to help promote the recruitment and employment of people with disabilities. In fiscal 2008, NTT CLARUTY held talks presented by the company president and employees who have visual impairments at venues including the Nagano City Hall, the Center of Lifelong Learning Support for Workers with Visual Impairments, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities and the Japan Organization for Employment of the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities.
* Special subsidiary system
A special system introduced to promote the recruitment of people with disabilities, thus enabling companies to meet such hiring obligations. Through this system, the number of people with disabilities hired by a subsidiary specially established for this purpose can be factored into the actual proportion of people with disabilities employed by the parent company and other subsidiaries that satisfy certain criteria.
Talk on employment of people with disabilities
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