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These four points are summarized in Table 1.
As Table 1 shows, each company interprets the phrase “work-life balance” differently,
positions work-life balance efforts differently, and uses different approaches and methods to
realize work-life balance and achieve a diverse range of results. In the future, efforts to
achieve and improve work-life balance can be expected to take various directions. The
information provided here is deliberately simplified to summarize this overview while
compactly showing common items and characteristic trends.
Company C (Manufacturer)
Company D (Information and Telecommunications)
● WLB aimed at utilizing a diversity of human
resources
Company C views the main factors in
business growth and expansion to be (1)
acceleration of business globalization; (2)
differentiation/development of technological
products; and (3) implementation of
management centered on people. The
company relies on the belief that the results of
synthesizing the skills of diverse human
resources will differentiate the company from
its competitors, achieving a competitive
advantage that raises the company’s unique
corporate value. Regardless of age, gender,
nationality, or whether or not they have
disabilities, the company values and
emphasizes the differences in the
characteristics and skills of individual workers.
The company uses WLB as a mechanism for
supporting the working styles of a diversity of
human resources, and all individual workers
are actors, regardless of their age, gender, or
nationality.
● WLB making work and life indivisible
Company D emphasizes that work is a part of
everyday life, and that it is impossible to draw a
line between work and life. This attitude is based
on the belief that, not only does “work” mean to
live and work at a company, but also includes
child-raising, housework, and undertaking social
contribution activities. An important concept is
that work is indivisible from everyday life, that it is
an improtant part of life, and that individuals
should be 100% committed to all of their
activities, whether they are work or life activities.