Creating a Healthy Working Environment
In accordance with our basic mental and physical health policy, we aim to maintain and improve the health of our employees. Furthermore, as the physical and mental wellbeing of each individual employee is the driving force behind realizing both company and personal dreams and ambitions, we have positioned the maintenance and improvement of employee health as an important management issue in our Health Management Declaration.
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Health management declaration
We want to be a group brimming with energy in which everyone enjoys good mental and physical health
The most important foundation for tackling this new stage of the information revolution and realizing continuing growth is to be a group in which each individual employee is healthy in both mind and body and always brimming with energy. In signature SoftBank style, we will actively utilize cutting edge AI and information and communication technologies to promote health management that maintains and enhances the wellbeing of our employees and their families.
Junichi Miyagawa
President & CEO, SoftBank Corp.
September 2018
Philosophy and policy
Health management philosophy
Our health management philosophy also forms part of our Rules of Employment.
(Excerpt from Rules of Employment)
Chapter 6 Health Management
(Health management philosophy)
Article 75
The Company shall be managed on the philosophy that the “most important foundation is to be a group in which each individual employee is healthy in both mind and body and always brimming with energy.”
(Employee health maintenance and improvement)
Article 76
The Company shall take the appropriate measures to maintain and improve the physical and mental health of employees and establish a safe and comfortable work environment. Employees shall cooperate with measures taken by the Company and work to maintain and improve their own health.
The basic mental and physical health policy outline
- Support the wellbeing of all SoftBank Group employees so all work aspirations can be achieved with a sound body and mind.
- Work to create a safe and comfortable work environment in which each employee can reach their full potential.
- Observe compliance related to occupational health and safety laws to become a highly trusted corporate group amongst internal and external stakeholders.
Promotion System and Broad-ranging Health Management KPIs
Our promotion system and health management KPIs
Three actions
Our three specific actions we are undertaking
External evaluation
Selected under the “Health & Productivity Stock Selection” for two years in a row and recognized the “Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program (White 500)” for the sixth consecutive year

SoftBank was selected under the “Health & Productivity Stock Selection” for two years in a row as an enterprise that is thinking about employee health care from a management perspective and actively engaging in health management.
We were recognized as a White 500 enterprise for the sixth consecutive year.
Obtained the highest rank of “DBJ Health Management Rating”

We received the highest rating in the “DBJ Health Management Rating*” conducted by the Development Bank of Japan, Inc.
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This is the world's first financing menu that introduces the “Health Management Rating” method, which certifies and selects companies that have excellent initiatives for employee health. In the certification phase, it evaluates the organizational management systems and the implementation of various health-related measures aimed at maintaining and promoting employees' physical and mental health, creating a comfortable working environment, and the initiatives to utilize and improve employee engagement.
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Here is the certificate
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Certified as “Sports Yell Company” for six years running

We have been certified by the Japan Sports Agency as a “Sports Yell Company”, meaning a company that makes an effort to get employees involved in sport to improve their health.
This is the sixth consecutive year that our company has been certified as “Bronze”.