Work Life Management

At Mizuno, we believe that the respect and mutual growth of each employee is a powerful driving force in our business. We aim to create a company where each employee can actively manage their work-life balance according to their life stage, and work vibrantly and proudly in their jobs, achieving both fulfillment in their work and their personal lives.

Mizuno provides full-time and contract employees with the following number of annual paid holidays: 1) 10 days immediately after joining the Company and 2) 20 days after working six years. In FY 2014, Mizuno decided to operate and promote a system that allows employees to take annual paid holidays on an hourly basis (five days; 40 hours at maximum / year). In addition, Mizuno puts effort into improving employee welfare and has established a transferable annual paid holiday system, where employees, for personal reasons, such as injury and illness, nursing, welfare activities (including volunteer work), and sports promotion activities, are allowed to use annual paid holidays that have expired.
Mizuno Corporation’s annual paid holiday user rate for FY 2022 was 58.0% [*d].

Mizuno offers various support systems to help employees balance their work with family life.
As for the childcare support offered at Mizuno, the employment patterns of female employees from pregnancy / childbirth to childcare period has been mostly implemented and used and comprises the following: 1) paid holidays available at an hourly-use basis from the day of pregnancy (40 hours a year), 2) prenatal and postnatal leave, childcare leave and extended leave (up to 2 years old if over 1 year and 6 months) 3) short working hours after returning to work (up until the day the child completes his / her third year of elementary school), and 4) flexible working hours (up until the day the child completes his / her third year of junior high school).
In addition, to enable itself to secure talented employees, Mizuno offers a reentry system that welcomes employees back to work after they have unwillingly left due to personal reasons, such as marriage and childbirth. Furthermore, Mizuno actively encourages its male employees to participate in childcare, and to do so, it allows its male employees to also use its childcare and maternity leave and flexible working hour systems. In FY 2022, the rate of male employees taking childcare leave was 26.7%.
Mizuno also puts effort into helping its employees provide their family members with nursing care, and to do so, it asks its employees to answer a survey so that it can provide them with support systems that best match their needs.
In FY 2022, Mizuno began a trial system that allows employees to work shorter hours and take leave for the purpose of infertility treatment and that allows them to work shorter hours for the purpose of nursing. So far, these systems have been used by two employees.