February 21, 2022
Dentsu Inc. (hereinafter “the Company”) has been driving working environment reform efforts since 2017 and is happy to provide an update based on the 2021 fourth-quarter (“Q4”) and 2021 full-year results.
The quarterly results for disclosure include: The number of employees violating Article 36 of the Labor Standards Act (daily and monthly); total hours worked per employee (quarterly total); the hours in excess of statutory work hours per employee (monthly average); and the number of harassment consultations brought to the attention of the Company’s consultation desk (quarterly). Reported annually are the total number of paid holidays taken per employee and the usage rate of statutory paid holidays per employee.
2021 Q4 Results (October - December)
| Indicators | 2021 Q4 Results (Oct.-Dec.) |
2020 Q4 Results |
|---|---|---|
| Number of employees violating Article 36 (monthly) |
— | — |
| Number of employees violating Article 36 (daily) |
— | — |
| Total hours worked per employee (quarterly) |
481.6 hrs (+0.5 hrs YOY) |
481.1 hrs*1 |
| Hours in excess of statutory work hours per employee (monthly average) |
7.8 hrs (+1.1 hrs YOY) |
6.7 hrs*1 |
| Number of harassment consultations received by the consultation desk (quarterly)*2 |
19 (+12 YOY) |
7 |
2021 Full-year Results (January - December)
(The numbers in brackets are changes from the previous year)
| Indicators | 2021 Results (Jan.-Dec.) |
2020 (Jan.-Dec.) |
2019 (Jan.-Dec.) |
2018 (Jan.-Dec.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of employees violating Article 36 (monthly) |
— | — | — | 10 |
| Number of employees violating Article 36 (daily) |
— | — | — | — |
| Total hours worked per employee (period total) |
2,022.5 hrs (+185.6 hrs) (+10.1%) |
1,836.9 (-66.8) (-3.5%) |
1,903.7 (-49.0) (-2.5%) |
1,952 |
| Hours in excess of statutory work hours per employee (monthly average)*1 |
11.8 hrs (+7.7 hrs) |
4.1 (-2.7) |
6.8 (-3.0) |
9.8 |
| Number of paid holidays taken per employee (January-December)*2 |
18.8 days (+4.1 days) |
14.7 (-9.1) |
23.8 (+2.9) |
20.9 |
| Usage rate of statutory paid holidays per employee (January-December)*2 |
67.5% (+21.0%pt) |
46.5% (-16.3) |
62.8% (-3.1) |
66.0% |
| Number of harassment consultations received by the consultation desk (period total)*3 |
53 (+24) |
29 (-58) |
87 (+17) |
70 |
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company shifted to a remote work operation from late February in 2020 and all employees were temporarily managed under the de facto working hour system whenever they worked remotely from late February to October in 2020. Because of this, the calculations of total hours worked per employee and hours in excess of statutory work hours per employee for January-September in 2020 include the de facto working hours and are different from the same period of the other years.
- The figures include the number of holidays taken using the Company’s special holiday system such as the “Special Consecutive Vacation Days” and the “Refreshment Holidays”.
- The figures represent the number of consultations brought from all offices to the harassment consultation desk set up in the Company’s Human Resources Division during the relevant periods. The cases were not necessarily identified by the Company as instances of actual harassment.
The next report is scheduled for May 2022 and will cover the results of 2022 Q1 (January-March).
