Employment and Working Environment

Employment Situation

Fuji Xerox provides various types of employment suitable to the type of work and expected roles for the purpose of maintaining and improving competitiveness. In FY2008, XXXX from FY2007 due to XX.

Initiatives for Non-direct Employees

Fuji Xerox and its affiliates have worked to unify the management of non-direct employees - who are engaged in their work under various types of contracts, including temporary staff contracts, delegation of operations and term contracts - under the Human Resources Department in a bid to ensure stricter compliance with laws and regulations and to make effective use of people, our most essential management resources.
In FY2008, the Resource Management Center was established to tackle the following four priority challenges.

In FY2008, in order to respond to production adjustments arising from the global financial crisis and because of the termination of contracts for temporary manufacturing staff, we terminated contracts for some temporary manufacturing staff at our domestic plants on the dates of expiration of contracts, after confirming the legality of such a move.
We worked to identify compliance issues concerning external resources and planned response measures by type of work, shared them with management and obtained an agreement to tackle them as priority compliance issues.
Furthermore, in July 2009, Fuji Xerox transferred to Tempstaff Co., Ltd., its shares in Fuji Xerox Career Net Co., Ltd., an affiliate engaging in temporary staffing services. (For details, please see News Release.)
The two companies will cooperate in developing measures to deal with compliance issues, including those at overseas affiliates, and in-house training and educational activities in this regard, thereby promoting the legal and proper use of external resources of Fuji Xerox and its affiliates.

Improvement in Employee Satisfaction

Fuji Xerox has conducted a questionnaire-based “Morale Survey” for all employees (Fuji Xerox and its seconded employees) since 1978.
The purpose of this survey is to correctly grasp individual employees' awareness and values concerning the company and their work in order to reflect survey results in the company's management goals and policies. Survey results have been analyzed in detail and fed back to management and respective units to be utilized as important information for management to formulate management policies and for units to solve problems.
As in previous years, the FY2008 survey was conducted at Fuji Xerox, its domestic and overseas affiliates and sales companies. The total response rate, for the group as a whole, reached 93.5%.
Core morale was measured by five questions - “job satisfaction,” “workplace satisfaction,” “support for supervisor's management,” “support for human resources systems and operations” and “support for management and organizational operations.” The average core morale score of all Fuji Xerox employees was unchanged from FY2007. By item, reflecting the ongoing management structural reform, scores dropped for “support for management and organizational operations” and “support for human resources systems and operations,” while scores for “job satisfaction,” “workplace satisfaction” and “support for supervisor's management” improved as in the previous year, hitting highs since 2003. This suggests that employees have very positive and high levels of awareness concerning their work and workplace environment, while recognizing the severe business environment.
Based on the survey results, we will work to develop necessary improvement measures at each workplace to achieve a higher level of employee morale and to establish better systems from the viewpoint of the entire group.