ESG Data

Human Resources

Ratio of Female Employees and Managers at Benesse Corporation

Regular employees as of April

	2016		2017		2018		2019		2020
	Male	Ratio of female employees	Male	Ratio of female employees	Male	Ratio of female employees	Male	Ratio of female employees	Male	Ratio of female employees
	Female	Ratio of female employees	Female	Ratio of female employees	Female	Ratio of female employees	Female	Ratio of female employees	Female	Ratio of female employees
Number of employees	1,270	52%	1,197	53%	1,246	53%	1,184	52%	1,182	51%
Number of employees	1,394	52%	1,356	53%	1,412	53%	1,298	52%	1,247	51%
Section leader	171	32%	150	32%	146	39%	126	36%	134	35%
Section leader	81	32%	71	32%	92	39%	72	36%	73	35%
General manager	53	23%	50	28%	55	31%	39	35%	41	35%
General manager	16	23%	19	28%	25	31%	21	35%	22	35%
Executive	7	22%	9	18%	10	23%	11	21%	12	14%
Executive	2	22%	2	18%	3	23%	3	21%	2	14%

Ratio of Employees with Disabilities in the Benesse Group

As of June 1

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Ratio of Employees	2.17%	2.27%	2.42%	2.44%	2.57%

* Ratio of employees with disabilities at Group companies subject to the Employment Quota System for Persons with Disabilities
* In 2016, the Group expanded the scope of data collection for this statistic, which temporarily lowered the ratio of employees with disabilities ; however, the Group plans to proactively increase the ratio going forward

Number of Employees Who Took Childcare Leave and Returned From Leave at Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd. and Benesse Corporation

	2016		2017		2018		2019		2020
	Number of employees taking leave	Number of returnees	Number of employees taking leave	Number of returnees	Number of employees taking leave	Number of returnees	Number of employees taking leave	Number of returnees	Number of employees taking leave
Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd. (Regular employees, contract employees, semi-full time staff)	156	129	166	126	215	177	204	192	267
Benesse Corporation (Regular employees, contract employees, specified job employees)	94	82	94	82	89	87	67	72	56

* Returnees: Employees who return to work within the time limit for leave under each company's system

Number of employees who have obtained shorter working hours for childcare

As of April

	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd. (Regular employees, contract employees, semi-full time staff)	137	137	161	230	230*
Benesse Corporation (Regular employees, contract employees, specified job employees)	152	128	109	124	76

* 276 as of July 31, 2020. We indicate the number as of July because returning of some staff is postponed due to coronavirus COVID-19.

Number of Employees Receiving Childcare Allowance at Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd.

As of April

2016	258
2017	314
2018	328
2019	415
2020	373*

* 410 as of July 31, 2020. Because some staffs have refrained from sending their children to kindergarten or nurseries due to coronavirus COVID-19.

Benesse Holdings, Inc., Benesse Holdings, Inc. Sustainability Promotion, Benesse Holdings, Inc. Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Department, Benesse Holdings, Inc. Administrative Division, Benesse Corporation, Benesse Foundation for Children, Benesse Educational Research and Development Institute, Berlitz Corporation, SIMUL INTERNATIONAL, INC., Tokyo Individualized Educational Institute, INC.,, Ochanomizu Seminar Co., Ltd., UP Inc., Benesse Style Care Co., Ltd., Benesse Business-mate, Inc., Benesse Socius, Inc., Fukutake Foundation, FUKUTAKE EDUCATION AND CULTURE FOUNDATION

Environment

Benesse Group environmental policy

Benesse Group environmental policy

Water policy (included in environmental policy)

Policy for reduction in water usage

Reduce the usage of service water and sewage at offices where toilet renovation work is done when conducting plumbing construction at the Okayama Headquarters and the Tokyo Headquarters.

Okayama Headquarters (August 2018 through July 2019): Annual reduction of approximately 2,500m³ of service water and an equivalent amount of sewage (20% reduction versus the previous year)

Tokyo Headquarters (planned for 2021 onward): Annual reduction of approximately 6,500m³ of service water and an equivalent amount of sewage (40% reduction versus the previous year)

Biodiversity policy (included in environmental policy)

	2018	2019	2020
Electricity Consumption (Million kWh)	7.93	8.06	8.06
Paper Consumption (t)	55,948	55,903	55,102
Water Consumption (m³)	58,000	74,923	92,389
CO₂ emissions (t)	4,154	5,082	4,517
Waste materials (paper) (t)	1,999	1,768	1,417
Waste materials (industrial waste) (t)	537	545	682

The electricity consumption data are for the Okayama Headquarters, Tokyo Head Office (Tama Office), and Benesse Logistics Center only.
The water consumption data are for the Okayama Headquarters, Tokyo Head Office (Tama Office), Benesse Logistics Center and Benesse socius only.

Benesse Socius :

"A type-A worksite providing support for continuous employment" that provides contracted services for laundering the personal items and bath towels of residents of the care facilities for the elderly operated by Benesse Style Care.
https://www.benesse-socius.co.jp
Water source is 100% city water.
Paper consumption excludes printing paper for use in offices.
CO₂ emissions are for electricity consumption only.

Benesse Corporation has upwardly revised its medium- and long-term emissions reduction targets as below. With the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018 (FY2017) as the reference year, these targets are science-based and designed to achieve the well-below 2-degree target (*) (2-degree target for Scope 3).

*The well-below 2-degree target aims to hold the global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

		Every fiscal year	FYE March 31, 2030	FYE March 31, 2050
Reduction rate with FYE March 31, 2018 (FY2017) as 100%	Scope1, 2	3.02%	36.2%	100.0%
Reduction rate with FYE March 31, 2018 (FY2017) as 100%	Scope3	1.23%	14.8%	39.4%

*The above reductions targets cover scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3.: Scope 1: Benesse's own direct greenhouse gas emissions
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the use of electricity, heat, or steam provided by third parties
Scope 3: Emissions from Benesse's value chain
* Scope 3 categories include:: category 1 (purchased goods and services), category 2 (capital goods), category 3 (fuel- and energy-related activities which are not included in scope 1 and 2), categories 4 and 9 (upstream and downstream transportation and distribution), category 5 (waste generated in operations), category 6 (business travel), category 7 (employee commuting), category 8 (upstream leased assets), category 11 (use of sold products), and category 12 (end-of-life treatment of sold products)
* Scope of organizations covered:: Benesse corporation offices, including offices in Japan and a branch in Taipei.

Unit：t-CO₂	Reference Fiscal Year	Reporting Year		Reduction from Reference Fiscal Year	Reduction of Reporting Year
	Reference Fiscal Year	2019
	2018	Target	Result
Scope1	120	116	88	26.1%	23.8%
Scope2	7,477	7,251	6,595	11.8%	9.0%
Scope3	400,988	396,056	373,986	6.7%	5.6%
Total for scope1,2,3	408,584	403,423	380,669	6.8%	5.6%

Date of revision Feb. 17th, 2021

Third-Party Verification

To improve the reliability of the Company's CO₂ emissions volume performance, it received third-party verification from the Japan Quality Assurance Organization for its fiscal 2020 data in scope 1, scope 2, and scope 3 for the following categories: category 1 (purchased goods and services), category 2 (capital goods), category 3 (fuel- and energy-related activities which are not included in scope 1 and 2), categories 4 and 9 (upstream and downstream transportation and distribution), category 5 (waste generated in operations), category 6 (business travel), category 7 (employee commuting), category 8 (upstream leased assets), category 11 (use of sold products), and category 12 (end-of-life treatment of sold products)

Last updated : 2020/06/22