Working Together with Employees
Business growth requires that each employee, as the core of the company, have creativity, a positive
attitude, flexibility, enthusiasm, and a sense of responsibility. The Tokyo Electron Group seeks to be acorporation where a diverse range of employees can work to their full potential.
Employee retention rate three years after
joining the company

Worker-friendly Environment
Personnel system
In order to achieve our goal of creating an inspired, innovative and energetic company,
we adopted a personnel system that promotes both the growth of individual employees
and the organization as a whole. For example, our evaluation system values not onlyresults, but also the initiatives taken to achieve them. We also provide our employeeswith opportunities for personal development. Furthermore, we engage in fair treatment
and skills evaluation, so that talented employees who make significant achievements
are well rewarded, and managerial personnel have incentives matched to their level ofresponsibility (job grade).

93.6%* Average in recent five years; refers to Group
company employees in Japan excluding Tokyo
Electron Device Limited

To enable new hires to quickly get oriented intheir workplace and comfortable with performing
their duties, the TEL Group has adopted an
Off-JT System1 and an OJT System2. We also
hold regular interviews to keep up-to-date withand discuss the state of the workplace andemployee relations, in order to ensure a pleasantwork environment for all employees.
Off-JT System: Off-the-job training system. The
system allows employees to develop their skills off
the job, such as by participating in collective training
and attending classes.
2OJT System: On-the-job training system. This
education method allows employees to learn throughthe performance of actual work and to hone theirskills through a gradual increase in the level difficulty.
1

Initiatives for work-life balance
We have enhanced our childcare support system and nursing care leave system tohelp employees continue to pursue their career while experiencing various life events.
According to Japanese law, for example, companies must take measures such as
reducing regular working hours for parents with children under the age of three.
Tokyo Electron goes beyond this minimum, giving parents of children of elementary
school age or younger the option to work shorter hours, as well as offering additional
assistance in balancing work and family life (see the graph on the right). As a result of
these measures, in fiscal year 2015, 52 employees (95% of the total number of eligibleemployees) took childcare leave, and another 46 returned to work after taking childcare
leave. At the same time, about 34% of female employees in Japan are successfullybalancing work and family as working mothers, continuing to develop their careers.

Users of shorter working hour systemfor childcare[Persons]

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20132014

2015 (FY)342011

Improving employee health and the workplace environment
The TEL Group places the highest priority on safety and health of its employees. InFebruary 2012, we issued a health declaration stating our commitment to providing
our employees with services like walking activities to promote health, healthy meals
at company cafeterias, physical health counseling with doctors, and mental healthcounseling.
In fiscal year 2015, we organized health seminars and various events with a “healthydiet” theme, while holding events to measure body composition, bone health, andblood vessel age to help employees understand the state of their health.
Additionally, we are making continued efforts to ensure that TEL is a safe andproductive workplace by providing all employees with mandatory education forpreventing workplace harassment, as well as external professional counseling services.

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Children under the age of threeChildren over three years old but not yet completed
elementary school* Refers to employees of Group companies in Japan excluding
Tokyo Electron Device Limited

Examples of healthy meals at company cafeterias

Working Together with Employees

Number of Group employees

Initiatives for globalization and diversification

12,304(Persons)

The TEL Group globally operates its business. As of March 2015, sales outside ofJapan make up 85% of the Group’s total sales. Meanwhile, about 34% of TEL Group
employees work outside Japan.
Recognizing that every person is entitled to have his or her basic human rights
respected, the TEL Group works to create an excellent work environment and strives
to be a corporation where employees with diverse backgrounds and abilities can work
to their full potential. One such effort is establishing an environment where physicallychallenged employees can work without any inconvenience to promote employmentof those who are physically-challenged. As a result, the proportion of physicallychallenged employees is 2.0% at TEL and 1.9% at all Group companies in Japan.

12,201

10,343 10,684

8,205

8,186

8,004

7,908

10,844

7,166

1,084

1,150

305

313
1,217

1,046
2011

2012

2013

JapanAsiaWorldwideEurope

1,633

1,652

888

888

1,494

1,559
2014

1,622
644
1,4122015 (FY)U.S.

* Excluding Tokyo Electron Device Limited in fiscal year 2015

Proportion of employees working inJapan and outside Japan

Human Resource Development
TEL UNIVERSITYThe TEL Group has an internal education institution, TEL UNIVERSITY, for strengthened
people development as well as enhanced capabilities of the entire organization.
TEL UNIVERSITY courses include such programs that provide individual employeeswith world-class knowledge and skills, leadership development programs for nextgeneration leaders, and management and organizational training programs.

23.5%

25.1%

76.5%

End ofMarch 201132.9%

33.3%

33.9%

74.9%

67.1%

66.7%

66.1%

End ofMarch 2012

End ofMarch 2013

End ofMarch 2014

End ofMarch 2015

Employees working outside Japan
Employees working in Japan* Data as of the end of March 2015 excludes Tokyo Electron
Device Limited.

Main initiatives for fiscal year 2015
For TEL Group employees working around the globe, ability to communicate is oneof the most important skillsets. In fiscal year 2015, we held seminars on improving
communication and facilitation skills at TEL Group companies in Japan. To help
employees from different cultures understand each other, achieve common goals, andunleash the full extent of individual and organizational abilities, we provided a crosscultural communication program in which 1,420 employees participated. As for English
learning, we improved English conversation and self-learning courses so that each
employee can choose a class that suits his or her duties and current skill level.
Furthermore, we hold career design seminars to help individual employees think
about the way they live and work, and to take proactive and positive action accordingly.

Examples of programs hosted byTEL UNIVERSITY
Number of participants by program for fiscal year
2015
English conversation class

478 classes

2,742 persons

Communication seminar

15 classes

250 persons

Cross-culturalcommunication program

42 times

1,420 persons

Career design seminar

12 times

290 persons

Next-generation leadersdevelopment program

10 times

10 persons

Management training

4 times

69 persons

Semiconductor seminar

6 times

89 persons

Voice <Balancing Work and Childcare>

I took childcare leave twice, and I am now using the reduced working hours systemfor childcare. Particularly in the first year after returning to work, I often had to takea sudden leave of absence when my child became sick. There was a time when I
couldn’t make it to work more than half the time in any one week, and I found it difficult
to pursue my career in this condition. Fortunately, many of my colleagues are awareof the importance of mothering. Thanks to the understanding and support of people
around me, I have been able to balance my work and family responsibilities.
I am so grateful, not only for the childcare support system, but also for a work
environment that allows me to continue to work and pursue my career development
while raising my children.

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Risa Kawano
Intellectual Property Department
Tokyo Electron Limited