DOCOMO strives to provide a comfortable and secure work environment by maintaining a diverse workforce in terms of race, gender, age, nationality and values. The company also is committed to maintaining a corporate culture that allows a healthy balance between professional and private lives, including respect for employees’ right to nurture their lives outside the office.

Personnel programs and systems reflect such policies. The company enhances the abilities and motivation of its employees by putting the right people in the right positions, where they can develop their professional skills and receive fair evaluation of their performance.

The Diversity Development Office oversees the implementation of these policies and provides various related services, including career counseling for women.

DOCOMO is committed to hiring people for their skills and abilities, not their nationalities. Employees of non-Japanese nationalities work throughout the company, including in the Global Business Division, Research and Development Division and Corporate Marketing Division. Diversity is emphasized in the hiring of both new graduates and mid-career personnel. Non-Japanese employees numbered 72 as of the end of fiscal 2009. DOCOMO also ensures that labor practices at its overseas offices accord with Japanese standards and regulations.

DOCOMO believes that helping people with disabilities lead their own lives is one of the company’s responsibilities to society. We therefore make a concerted effort to hire people with disabilities. There were approximately 200 employees with disabilities working at DOCOMO as of June 2009, which represents 2.03% of the company’s total workforce. The legal requirement is 1.80%.

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DOCOMO launched a telecommuting program in April 2010 to encourage greater self-initiative and effective management of professional/private lives by employees at all offices. Anyone is allowed to telecommute once a week, or up to five days a month, upon the approval of their manager. The program enables employees at home to use a high-security notebook computer to safely access the company’s internal network and replicate their in-office work environment.

What is required of a corporate culture for diversity to truly take hold? How can a workplace be organized to enable differing ways of working and thinking to be truly respected? These objectives form the basis of an e-learning training program that DOCOMO provides to its employees. Courses include subjects such as the basics of diversity and how to improve communication as the foundation of respect. The program continues to be enhanced both qualitatively and quantitatively, ultimately to promote lasting, meaningful diversity at DOCOMO. More than 90 percent of the company’s workforce participated in the program between December 2009 and February 2010.