Respecting Human Rights

NEC established the NEC Group Human Rights Policy in 2015.

This policy, as well as our initiatives to promote respect for human rights based on it, will be reviewed annually and updated or revised as necessary. In response to growing global expectations, NEC published a revised version in July 2026 that updated, among other things, its approach to employee working hours and wages.

The NEC Group Human Rights Policy applies to all corporate officers and employees of the NEC Group, including contract employees.
The NEC Group also encourages its suppliers, business partners, and customers to understand this policy and share our commitment to respect human rights.

Inclusion and Diversity

NEC believes that creating a culture where diverse talent can thrive and where a broad range of perspectives and ideas are respected is essential and strategic for driving innovation. To that end, the Company is advancing initiatives such as global talent utilization, expanding mid-career hiring, promoting women’s advancement, encouraging the employment of people with disabilities, and fostering understanding and support for sexual minorities.

Hiring, Retention, and Compensation

The NEC Group needs to acquire and retain talented employees in order to develop products, services and solutions that society accepts. In doing so, the Group potentially competes with multinational technology companies possessing extensive resources. Therefore, the NEC Group’s Human Resources Division constantly strives to hire and retain the personnel required by the divisions that drive the NEC Group’s businesses, including the growth areas of the Mid-term Management Plan. Given these efforts, hiring and labour costs may increase.
In addition, as technology and industry trends evolve, there could be an increasing need to hire diverse, socially aware talent who have various values, abilities, backgrounds, and unconventional skills.

Human Resource Development

To realize the transformation of the IT business in Japan outlined in Mid-term Management Plan 2025, NEC has set a target to secure 12,000 digital transformation (DX) professionals who will continuously create and implement social value, and is strengthening efforts to develop such talent. NEC is also accelerating the growth of promising next generation leaders by offering them a variety of development opportunities such as tough assignments and training.

Occupational Health and Safety

The Company is working to secure, maintain, and improve a working environment where people can work safely and healthily as a foundation for realizing its Purpose. To promote these efforts, we have established the NEC Group Safety and Health Policy. This policy, which was formulated based on dialogue with the labor union and approved by the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), the executive officer in charge, applies not only to NEC Group corporate officers and employees, but also to business partners and any other parties whose health and safety should be considered, in an effort to foster a culture of safe and healthy work.

Health and Productivity Management

In order to realize our Purpose, the Company is focusing on “achieving an optimal talent portfolio to increase our strategy execution capabilities” and “transforming people and culture to draw out the maximum potential of employees” based on job-based human resources management from the perspective of human capital management.

Work-Life Balance

Based on the NEC Way, NEC Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries in Japan have established the work systems necessary to enable employees to balance their work and personal lives and to perform at their best, even when under certain constraints, and are promoting educational and awareness-raising activities to make the most of these systems.

AI and Human Rights

NEC has formulated the NEC Group AI and Human Rights Principles (the “Companywide Principles”) in line with the NEC Group Human Rights Policy to guide employees in recognizing respect for privacy and human rights as the highest priority in its business operations in relation to social implementation of AI and utilization of biometrics and other data (“AI utilization”).
In addition to facilitating compliance with relevant laws and regulations around the globe, the Companywide Principles guide employees in recognizing respect for human rights as the highest priority in each and every stage of business operations in relation to AI utilization, and enable them to take action accordingly.

Personal Information Protection and Privacy

The NEC Group Code of Conduct stipulates respect for human rights and privacy and the management of personal information, and NEC has positioned “Provision and Utilization of AI with Respect for Human Rights (AI and Human Rights),” including personal information protection initiatives, as a priority management theme from an ESG perspective—materiality. From this perspective, we are tackling prevention of any privacy-related issues stemming from the handling of personal information, in addition to undertaking other personal information protection measures.

Information Security and Cyber Security

NEC evaluates risks from various perspectives including the need for countermeasures as well as possible impacts both on corporate management and on society, and selects Priority Risks that it has evaluated as having major impacts and that need to be addressed. With these risks in mind, we are deploying measures to counter cyberattacks that are becoming increasingly sophisticated, while complying with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 and Cybersecurity Management Guidelines Ver. 3.0 by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

In addition, at NEC, we leverage the insights and know-how gained from in-house initiatives to create opportunities, providing expertise in security measures to help strengthen customer security strategies.

Customer Relationship Management

The significance of NEC’s existence can be measured by its continued provision of value to society through its business activities. The NEC Group is determined to serve as a company that is embraced by and essential to society. By having each employee listen to the opinions of customers and the voices of society, the Company can strengthen its ability to create value while working towards solving social issues.

Quality and Safety

To realize “Better Products, Better Services,” which is one of the Principles in our founding philosophy, we have implemented a steady stream of initiatives aimed at improving quality. These include the introduction of quality controls that broke new ground in Japan, ZD Activities, the quality-operation strategy, and Software Quality Control (SWQC).

As a Social Value Innovator, we hope that all employees will continue to improve the quality of their own work, the products they create and the services they provide, and that customers will favor company as the provider of trusted “NEC Quality.”

Corporate Citizenship Activities

In our Purpose, NEC Group has committed itself to creation of the social values of safety, security, fairness and efficiency to promote a more sustainable world where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential.

Guided by this concept, each member of NEC Group, from directors to employees, acts as a good corporate citizen by carrying out NEC Make-a-Difference Drive corporate citizenship activities aimed at resolving social issues over the medium to long term.