For Immediate Release
November 25, 2019
LIXIL Group Corporation

LIXIL Launches Comprehensive HR Program to Revitalize Its Japan BusinessTokyo – LIXIL Group Corporation (“LIXIL Group”, TSE Code: 5938), maker of pioneering water andhousing products, announced today it has launched a comprehensive series of employee-focused
initiatives to transform its Japan operations. The move is in line with the company’s overall strategy tobuild a more agile, consumer-centric organization to achieve sustainable growth.
The program includes strategic changes to achieve three objectives: “work consumer-centrically,”“manage career paths” including a new Career Option Program separately announced in a timely
disclosure today, and “change working styles.”Work consumer-centrically
LIXIL Group is pursuing a strategy based on engaging consumers more directly through differentiatedproducts, services, and business models. To remain successful in the mature Japan market especially, theability to anticipate new consumer needs and trends and respond with differentiated products andservices will be crucial. The new HR program will include reallocating employees with strong LIXIL DNA,knowledge, and experience in direct consumer engagement roles in Japan, leading to better customer
experience and creating new career development opportunities for employees through proper training.
Manage career paths
LIXIL Group is working to enhance its HR systems to support multigenerational career planning, expand
development opportunities, and shift to a meritocracy-based system. Since October this year, LIXILGroup has already implemented a series of measures including a new performance review system andexpanded training programs. In addition, the company has now decided to offer a new “Career OptionProgram” for permanent employees who are seeking different life planning and career development
options. Through this program, permanent employees of group subsidiaries working in Japan who are 50years old or over with ten consecutive years or more of service in the company will be able to select theoption to pursue opportunities outside the company before the usual statutory retirement age. This has
been developed as a five-year program to ensure that comprehensive career planning opportunities areprovided to employees.
Change working styles
LIXIL Group has so far promoted various initiatives to change awareness of working styles and toconsider new ways of working. In addition to encouraging employees to take paid holidays, personnel
measures such as flextime, teleworking, and the introduction of satellite offices, as well as the expansionof IT infrastructure, have enabled more flexible working styles. Scores for “work-life balance” rose in thelatest round of the company’s employee survey, indicating that the efforts are starting to generateresults. In order to enable employees to use these systems more and work more efficiently, further
promotional efforts will be implemented.
LIXIL Group CEO, Kinya Seto, said, “Our vision is to transform LIXIL into a truly differentiated company
that puts the consumer at the heart of everything it does and acts with purpose. This means being a
1 | Pagemore agile company that can innovate faster and deliver solutions to the challenges consumers arefacing. Transforming LIXIL in Japan is crucial to achieving this vision, and we can only do this bytransforming the way our people in Japan are organized, working, developing and interacting withconsumers. This comprehensive new HR program will make us more consumer-centric, moremeritocratic, and more dynamic, which I am confident will support our long term success in Japan andinternationally.”
The Japan market accounts for approximately 70% of LIXIL’s consolidated revenue and plays a critical rolein enabling synergies with its overseas businesses to accelerate growth, including the transfer ofadvanced technologies and products.
-EndAbout LIXIL
LIXIL makes pioneering water and housing products that solve everyday, real-life challenges, making better homes areality for everyone, everywhere. Drawing on our Japanese heritage, we create world-leading technology and innovate tomake high quality products that transform homes. But the LIXIL difference is how we do this; through meaningful design,an entrepreneurial spirit, a dedication to improving accessibility for all, and responsible business growth. Our approachcomes to life through industry leading brands, including INAX, GROHE, American Standard, and TOSTEM. With
approximately 75,000 colleagues operating in more than 150 countries, we are proud to make products that touch thelives of more than a billion people every day.
LIXIL Group Corporation (TSE Code: 5938) is the listed holding company for LIXIL’s portfolio of businesses.

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