Governance
Health and Productivity Management Framework
At the Company, under the direction of the President, the CHRO oversees activities related to occupational health and safety company-wide, including risk management, and reports on these activities to the Board of Directors and other organizations. The health management promotion team is composed of the Employee Relations Department, the NEC Health Insurance Association, and NEC Business Intelligence, Ltd., and promotes efforts in cooperation with related departments. We assign medical professionals of the Wellness Promotion Center to each site to hear about local conditions, create opportunities to share information with labor unions as well, and hold discussions regarding employee health and working styles. We also deploy health and productivity management to consolidated subsidiaries in Japan and undertake groupwide initiatives while accumulating and utilizing data, insights, and know-how held by each company.
The NEC Group’s Health and Productivity Management Implementation Framework
Approach
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. Underlying this is the mental and physical health of our employees and their families, and we believe that only when each individual is in good mental and physical condition can we maximize our organizational performance and enhance our ability to execute strategies. Rather than simply focusing on the prevention of illness, the NEC Group Health Declaration established in fiscal year 2020 calls for efforts to improve the health of employees so that they can work with mental and physical vitality and achieve self-actualization. In this way, the Group aims to create even more social value.
We carry out a variety of health promotion activities driven by the slogan “Better Condition, Better Life.” Based on three policies—Literacy, Practice, and Technology—we seek to reform health awareness, make behavioral change, and help people maintain healthier behavior. In recognition of these initiatives, NEC has been certified as an Outstanding Organization of KENKO Investment for Health (White 500) for six consecutive years under the certification program implemented by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and was further selected for the 2022 KENKO Investment for Health Stock Selection and 2026 KENKO Investment for Health Stock Selection.
NEC Health and Well-being Report
For more detailed information, please refer to the NEC Health and Well-being Report2025 and our health and productivity management indicators (data collection).
Back Issues
NEC Health and Well-being Report2024
Health Management Metrics (Data Collection)
Metrics and Targets
Medium- to Long-term Goals and Priority Activities
We will strategically utilize health data to identify organizational issues, implement effective measures, and establish a robust evaluation cycle. Aiming to achieve our company target of a 50% employee engagement score in fiscal 2025, we are committed to enhancing employees’ health literacy and increasing the number of employees who are in optimal mental and physical condition. In addition, for individuals and organizations identified as having high health risks, we will implement timely and appropriate interventions to further reduce health risks at both the individual and organizational level.
FY2027 KPIs
(Scope: NEC Corporation unless otherwise specified, Period: April 2026 to March 2027)
M: Indicates the main non-financial targets related to materiality.
M: Engagement score: 50%
FY2026 Goals and Results／FY2027 Goals
1. FY2026 Goals
- While strategically utilizing health data, clarify organizational issues and implement countermeasures, raise employees’ health literacy, and increase the number of employees in good mental and physical condition. To this end, reduce health risks for individuals and organizations and improve performance for individuals and organizations. Build an evaluation cycle aimed at more efficient initiatives.
- Verify the effectiveness of “Client Zero” and develop case studies.
2. FY2026 Results
- As activities to reduce health risks for individuals and organizations, strengthened interviews for employees with high health risks identified through health checkups and stress checks. (Post-checkup interview rate: 94.4% / high-stress individual interview implementation rate: 94.5%) As an organizational approach, medical professionals and HR conducted interviews with executives of organizations with high risk identified by stress checks and provided support tailored to organizational issues. (Intervention rate: 100%)
- As “Client Zero,” promoted the use of our health point service app, WoLN, and promoted health improvement (9,628 app installations in FY2026). The positive response rate for mental and physical condition in the survey has shown an improving trend, increasing from 43% in September 2024 to 44% in June 2025 and 48% in September 2025.
FY2027 Goals
- Integrally manage and visualize health-related data such as health checkups, stress checks, and medical consultation status, and reduce risks through early intervention for high health-risk individuals. Furthermore, promptly identify priority issues through AI analysis and accelerate effectiveness verification (PDCA).
- Through “Client Zero” in the healthcare domain, promote employee health, verify the effectiveness of initiatives, and develop case studies.
Initiatives for Health and Productivity Management
The Company conducts periodic health checkups, stress checks, monitoring of working hours, etc., and identifies and manages employee health risks. Industrial physicians and HR work together to intervene for high-risk employees and address disease prevention and prevention of progression to severe conditions. In addition, from the perspectives of business sustainability and crisis management, we also deploy initiatives and know-how to external partner companies and strive to promote health and productivity management.
1. Mental Health Measures
Since fiscal year 2024, the number of employees taking leave of absence due to mental health reasons has been increasing. We position mental health care as an important theme and are strengthening our response through both population and high-risk approaches.
- As a population approach, we provide training to all employees to raise awareness of self-care and line care. While also confirming the level of understanding and satisfaction with the training, we are making repeated improvements so that the content will be meaningful for employees. (FY2026 self-care training attendance rate: 95.7%, understanding level: 98.3%, line care training attendance rate: 92.1%, usefulness level: 92.2%)
- As a high-risk approach, we have increased the number of times we encourage employees who are judged to have high stress in stress checks to take interviews, thereby increasing the interview implementation rate and leading to support for eligible individuals. Because background factors of high stress involve working styles and relationships with supervisors, medical professionals and HR intervene in high-risk organizations and have developed a support framework for resolving organizational issues.
Mental health-related leave of absence rate (Data Collection)
- In addition, through the provision of an AI chatbot tool based on cognitive behavioral therapy, establishment of various consultation desks, creation of return-to-work programs, etc., we are creating an environment in which employees can work with peace of mind.
2. Implementation of Health Checkups
At the Company, we consider ensuring and improving physical health as a major issue and are committed to promoting health. We provide blood tests for all employees of NEC Corporation and 24 affiliated companies in Japan, including all items covered in the regular health examination, in order to detect and manage lifestyle diseases at an early stage. In addition, in cooperation with the NEC Health Insurance Association, we have established a system to provide free health checkups and cancer screenings. We have also rolled out our NEC Health Checkup Results Prediction Simulation service to all employees to encourage behavioral changes after health checkups.
3. Promoting Health through Data Utilization
NEC strategically utilizes health, engagement, and workstyle data to drive more effective health and productivity management.
In fiscal 2024, we introduced a dashboard visualizing stress check results for managers, holding briefing sessions to help leaders better understand and improve organizational trends.
We have developed a system that leverages AI to analyze health checkup results and predict future health conditions, providing personalized recommendations to approximately 60,000 NEC Group employees.
4. Health Support for Younger Employees
Our company and 24 domestic affiliates are implementing the following initiatives, primarily aimed at fostering a self-care mindset.
- New Graduates: Individual health counseling sessions with registered nurses/public health nurses for all new hires, focusing on health guidance and early intervention.
- Age 27: Individual health consultations with nurses and public health nurses for all employees around their third year of employment, a time when responsibilities and life stages often change significantly.
- Annual health checkups including comprehensive blood tests for all employees, enabling consistent lifestyle disease management from onboarding through retirement
5. Health promotion education and awareness campaigns
- In fiscal 2024, NEC introduced the “WoLN” health point service app for all group employees and their families, promoting healthy lifestyle changes through events and programs such as walking and diet challenges.
- To address the common challenge of sleep improvement, NEC developed and distributed a digital resource for better sleep hygiene among group companies.
- Medical professionals regularly issue the “Well-Comi Health News” newsletter, providing practical, seasonal health tips.
Addressing women’s health, we created a “Gynecological Exam Experience” campaign to lower the hurdles to screening uptake, sharing personal reports that contributed to a 10.7% increase in screening rates among women in their 30s. This initiative was recognized with the 2025 Women’s Health Award for Promotion. Regular women’s health seminars are also held, attracting numerous participants.
Learn more about the Women’s Health Award 2025 (in Japanese)
6. NEC Health Insurance Association System
Cancer Screening Support
NEC Health Insurance provides an environment where employees can undergo cancer screenings during work hours at no cost to them, equivalent to receiving the same examination at an external medical institution. It also implements various measures to improve cancer screening participation rates.
Online Smoking Cessation Program
From fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022, the "Online Smoking Cessation Program" provided free online smoking cessation outpatient services. 1,500 people participated, with 93% completing the smoking cessation treatment. (Eligible scope: NEC Corporation and NEC Health Insurance member companies)
Dental Checkups
Employees can utilize dental checkups covered by the NEC Health Insurance contract free of charge.In fiscal 2024, NEC introduced the “WoLN” health point service app for all group employees and their families, promoting healthy lifestyle changes through events and programs such as walking and diet challenges.
7. Promoting Health Management at External Partner Companies
- In fiscal 2024, NEC conducted seminars and online exercise sessions for key software procurement partners to promote health management. These seminars were attended by representatives from 125 companies, and the online exercise sessions had participants from 14 companies. According to post-event surveys, all participants found the seminars meaningful, and 91% expressed interest in implementing similar initiatives within their own companies.
- In fiscal 2025, interactive sessions for partner companies focused on sharing practical know-how for launching health and productivity management initiatives and included open discussions.