Advancing sustainability with business growth
At the Group, we believe that solving social issues through our business activities contributes to building a sustainable society while at the same time bringing sustainable growth and enhanced corporate value to the Company. The solutions we provide do not merely streamline operations but have the power to transform people’s working styles and the quality of the economy itself by improving productivity. Therefore, we consider business growth itself to be the greatest driving force for promoting sustainability, as it is directly related to solving social issues.
Based on this way of thinking, in 2022 and 2023, after discussions at the Board of Directors, we identified material issues (priority issues) and formulated targets for FY2029. In order to ensure the promotion of these activities, under the supervision of the Board of Directors we assigned a responsible director to each field and established a framework in unison with the management. We regard it as important to instill sustainability throughout the entire business, and not to confine it to a dedicated department.
Steady progress was made in each of the ESG areas in FY2024. In terms of environmental initiatives, we relocated our head office to a building that uses renewable energy and advanced the reduction of GHG emissions toward achieving carbon neutrality. In addition, through the Scan for Trees project, in which tree planting is conducted in proportion to the number of paper documents such as business cards, invoices, and contracts digitized through our services, we achieved the planting of a cumulative total of over 20,000 trees. In terms of social initiatives, we have strengthened our efforts to promote the active participation of diverse human resources, leading to improvements in the ratio of female employees and the ratio of female managers. In terms of governance initiatives, we worked to further improve transparency by increasing the independence of the Board of Directors and establishing various policies.
Given the scale of the Group’s business, the immediate impact of these measures on society may be limited. However, we believe that by continually asking ourselves what we can do and for what purpose, and by each of us steadily taking small steps, we will eventually bring about great change across society.
The Group aims to contribute to solving social issues through its business and to become an indispensable business infrastructure for society. This is precisely my mission as CEO in the field of sustainability.
Chika Terada
Representative Director, CEO, and CPO