Extended healthy life expectancy, the era of 100-year lifespans is approaching. Business operators are expected to rebuild the economic and social system based on the concept of people being active throughout their lives. In response to the changes of the times, PARK24 GROUP has been improving its working environments to ensure that employees from diverse generations can retire in good health both mentally and physically.

At PARK24 GROUP, we have been responding to changes in the times and improving the working environment so that employees of various ages can retire in good physical and mental health. Considering that maintaining and promoting the health of employees and their families will become an important theme in the group's management strategy, the President and CEO declared in the 2020 Health Management Declaration that the perspective of health management will be incorporated into the group's sustainable growth.

Currently, within the "PARK24 GROUP Human Resource Strategy" linked to our group's management strategy, health management is positioned as one of the key themes to enhance employee engagement and overall group productivity.

Human Resource Strategy

Under the Group philosophy of “creating new forms of comfort and convenience by responding to the needs of today and anticipating the needs of tomorrow,” PARK24 GROUP is striving to establish a working environment in which each employee can develop extensive experience, improve their expertise and demonstrate their capabilities. As part of these efforts, we will provide employees and their family members with an environment in which they can maintain and improve their health.
Through measures aimed at maintaining and improving their health, we aim to ensure that each employee is energetically engaged in operations with a satisfying mindset while maintaining high productivity. In addition, we will comply with laws and regulations related to employees’ health and safety, and facilitate the creation of a comfortable workplace environment by highlighting the health of employees and their family members as one of the Group’s important management challenges.

March, 2020
Koichi Nishikawa
President and Representative Director, CEO,
PARK24 CO., LTD.

Under the leadership of the Chief Health Officer, we have established a system to promote health management centered on the Health Management Promotion Council (established in 2023), in which each Group company and business unit participates. The Health Management Promotion Council also collaborates with the Health Committee of each company and business unit, and the Health and Productivity Management & Employee Benefit Team, which serves as the Health Management Promotion Administration Office, is staffed by in-house public health nurses and psychologists, who are involved in the health and productivity management measures from planning to execution.
In addition to collaborating with the health insurance union to implement Collaborative Health (*1), we also hold regular discussions with employee representatives to promote health management.

1. *1 Collaborative health means that insurers and business enterprises actively collaborate to efficiently and effectively implement prevention and health promotion for their members under a clear division of roles and a favorable work environment.

For employees to maintain high engagement and work with a sense of fulfillment while enhancing the overall productivity of the group, it is essential that each employee is healthy both physically and mentally.
Given the diverse working styles and job types of our group’s employees, it is important for them to find and implement methods to maintain and improve their health that suit their work and life. Therefore, our group has set the goal of increasing the number of people who work on maintaining and improving their physical and mental health as part of our health management objectives.
Additionally, based on the belief that a supportive workplace environment is essential for health, not just individual efforts, we have also set the goal of increasing the number of workplaces with reduced overall health risk.

＜Goals by 2030＞

1. 1) Percentage of employees with healthy lifestyles: 65% or more
2. 2) Percentage of employees practicing mental self-care: 70% or more
3. 3) Percentage of workplaces with reduced overall health risk: 90% or more

• Medium-to Long-Term Sustainability Goals

• Health Management Strategy Map（PDF）(84KB)

With regards to the Group's health management, some measures are designed to cover a wide range of employees and their families. However, unless otherwise indicated, data is compiled for employees covered by employee health insurance who work at business locations in Japan, as "persons subject to health management”.

• Training by hierarchy (new employees, newly appointed managers, newly appointed department heads, executives)
• Health management training for managers
• Women’s health issues
• Improving sleep habits
• Reducing the risk of lifestyle diseases through dietary improvements
• Mindfulness meditation
• Emotional labor and mental health, etc.

2）　Promoting Healthy Behaviors

To translate the knowledge gained from health education into healthy behaviors, we organize various health events. These events are designed to be enjoyable and easy to participate in, providing opportunities for employees to become aware of and take action towards healthy eating and exercise habits. Online gym lesson experiences and nutrition fairs are also available for employees' families to join from home. In 2024, a total of 6,734 participants took part in health events.

＜Examples of Health Events in 2024＞

• Online walking events (held three times a year)
• Gym lesson experiences (boxercise, yoga)
• Nutrition fairs (nutrition education + purchase support for vegetables directly from producers supervised by registered dietitians)
• On-site stretching and massage (15-minute body maintenance guidance by physical trainers)
• Workplace group influenza vaccinations (collaborative initiative with Tokyo Real Estate Health Insurance Association), etc.

【Effects of the in-office body stretch and massage​】
A massage bed was placed in an office space. During work hours, a physical trainer provided individual body maintenance guidance in 15 minute sessions. The trainer gave advice on stretching to alleviate ails such as shoulder stiffness and lower back pain and on exercising. The participant satisfaction score was 9.4 on a ten-point scale, and 94.0% of participants said they would like to keep participating in the company’s safety and health events.​

4）　Health Consultation Services

We have established health consultation services staffed by in-house nurses and psychologists to detect physical and mental health issues early and connect employees to appropriate workplace responses and treatments. The consultation content is kept confidential unless the employee consents, ensuring a safe and comfortable environment for seeking advice. In-house professionals provide agile and detailed support, covering a wide range of topics such as balancing treatment and work, menopause and PMS, and line care consultations from supervisors. We also proactively encourage consultations and visit various offices, with approximately 500 consultations annually.

5）　Creating Healthy Workplaces

Stress checks are conducted for all employees, including those at offices with fewer than 50 employees and those on overseas assignments. The results of the group analysis are reported to the executives of each group company and the heads of each workplace. To promote the use of group analysis results for workplace improvements, we conduct workshops to help managers interpret the results and plan for workplace improvement, as well as individual consultations with in-house psychologists, fostering vibrant workplaces.

6）　Other Initiatives

1. To facilitate early detection and treatment of cancers specific to women, we are implementing health education and establishing consultation services staffed by female professionals as part of our women's health support measures.
2. To support the alleviation of symptoms that affect work productivity, such as eye strain, hay fever, and PMS (premenstrual syndrome), we have partnered with online medical services. Employees can use these services to receive medical consultations and prescription medications from home or the workplace, with partial cost subsidies provided by the company.
3. As part of our occupational safety and health initiatives, in-house nurses regularly attend hygiene committee meetings at various locations to provide timely hygiene-related topics, revitalizing the committees. Workplace inspections by hygiene managers at each site use checklists that include unique risk items to identify hazards early.
4. To promote health management among our business partners, we actively provide opportunities to explain health management to the companies we work with. We also offer health education materials for employees on topics such as sleep and heatstroke prevention to interested companies. So far, we have provided educational materials to over 100 business partners.

As indicators of the effectiveness of health management, we monitor work engagement and presenteeism. In 2024, for the measurement of work engagement and presenteeism we surveyed 6,386 employees, including those enrolled in employee health insurance at domestic offices and those on overseas assignments, of whom 6,126 responded, achieving a response rate of 95.9%.*１

1. *1 For work engagement, we use a common measurement method of averaging the value of “pride in work” and “vitality” in the The New Brief Job Stress Questionnaire (the most favorable value is 4.0 and the least is 1.0). Presenteeism is a condition in which employees are at work but their performance is reduced due to illness or injury. For presenteeism, we use the five-point rating index by Humanage, Inc., in which being rated 3 is considered to be at the national average level (the most favorable rating is 5 and the least is 1).

	Unit	2022	2023	2024
Rate of employees with healthy lifestyle ※1	％	59.9	60.7	61.9
Rate of employees who practice mental health self-care ※2	％	-	60.2	62.2
Rate of workplaces with favorable overall health risks ※3	％	86.3	79.0	85.7
Health education participation rate	％	27.6	94.8	100.0
Regular medical checkup (consultation rate)	％	100.0	100.0	100.0
Regular medical checkup (detailed examination rate)	％	29.4	76.2	77.4
Regular medical checkup (percentage of persons with related findings)	％	35.1	24.8 ※4	24.8
High-risk person control rate (high blood pressure treatment rate)	％	81.0	82.8	82.5
Smoking rate	％	31.1	30.2	29.8
Breast cancer screening rate	％	80.7	82.6	83.3
Uterus cancer screening rate	％	66.2	66.4	69.2
Health guidance participation rate	％	97.3	100.0	100.0
Stress check (consultation rate)	％	88.9	94.8	95.9
Stress check (parcentage of highly stressed persons)	％	11.5	11.7	10.5
Average monthly overtime working hours	hours	11	13	13
Work engagement	-	2.43	2.48	2.51
Presenteeism (on a five-point scale)	-	3	3	3
Absenteeism (leave of absence due to personal injury or illness)	days	1.75	1.81	1.95
Lost time injury frequency rate	-	-	0.54	1.11

1. *1 Rate of employees who answered a certain number of lifestyle questions as having healthy lifestyle at the annual health checkup
2. *2 Rate of employees who indicated on an annual survey that they practice mental health self-care
3. *3 Rate of departments with a overall health risk score of 100 or less (below the national average) in annual stress checks
4. *4 The caliculation method was amended in 2023 to reflect changes in thestandards of the Japan Society of Ningen Dock and Preventive Medical Care