JAPAN'S WORKPLACES
Concept
Many ways of gathering
DeNA puts comfort for each employee first, and treats time and place as resources to use well: the office, home, flexible offices, side jobs. Around that sits a support system for life events — health management, childcare and nursing care — so people can keep working for a long time.
01 · Workspace
WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square
The headquarters sits inside WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square, a space built for different ways of gathering as teams and organisations change.
02 · Hybrid work
From anywhere in Japan
Staff work from home or any WeWork and other flexible offices. Employees living far away have no daily commuting cap — up to ¥150,000 a month, by plane or ferry if needed, with approval. Workations are being trialled to refresh and to connect people from different departments.
03 · Welfare
A Chief Health Officer
A dedicated CHO office — Chief Health Officer — works on exercise, food, sleep and mental health based on staff surveys. A health room has an occupational physician and nurses on site, and a counsellor visits every week.
04 · How they work
Banked leave and a return-to-work allowance
Side jobs are allowed with approval. Unused paid leave banks up to 10 days a year and 60 in total for childcare, nursing care, illness or fertility treatment. Partners get five days of Baby Care leave at a birth; parents returning from leave receive ¥20,000 a month until the child is eighteen months old; nursing-care leave runs to 93 days. Two company pensions, a stock plan with matching, a remote-work allowance of ¥450 a working day, long-service awards and club subsidies round it out.
