Toyota to Open On-site Child Care Facility "Bubu Forest"
2018年3月20日 - 2:43PM
JCN Newswire (英)
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has always been committed to the
promotion of diversity, a component of its management strategy, and
is continuously working to establish a workplace environment and
culture that values its employees, enables them to attain greater
work-life balance, and to reach their full potential.
As part of these efforts, in order to address employee concerns
about child care and to establish a workplace environment that
fosters greater understanding of the challenges associated with
child care, TMC plans to open the "Bubu Forest," an on-site child
care facility, on Monday, April 2.
Features of Bubu Forest
Increasingly, society understands that work styles are becoming
ever more diversified. At the same time, work styles are
diversifying at TMC as well, and greater numbers of employees
require support to balance both their work and child-rearing
responsibilities. Currently, TMC has three on-site child care
facilities that can accommodate a total of approximately 140
infants and young children. The new 320-child capacity Bubu Forest
brings the overall capacity of all four on-site facilities to
approximately 460.
Hours of operation of Bubu Forest include early morning as well as
overnight hours to accommodate employees with a diverse range of
needs such as shift workers at plants and nurses who work the night
shift. Newly available bus transportation is also provided for
children to/from all plants in the TMC Head Office area to ease the
burden of pickups and drop-offs for shift-work employees and to
enable group care.
The facilities also accept new enrollees throughout the year, to
accommodate the needs of employees including those who intend to
return to work after child-birth, mid-career employees, and
employees returning to Japan from overseas assignments.
In cooperation with Toyota Memorial Hospital, located on the same
premises as Bubu Land, the forthcoming opening of Pipo Land, a
child care facility within Toyota Memorial Hospital, will be made
available to take in sick children. This facility will employ
professionally qualified daycare staff and nurses who can provide
care and monitor the health condition of children, making it
possible for TMC employees to work when their children fall ill.
This child care facility for sick children will be available to TMC
employees as well as Toyota City residents and allows TMC to build
stronger ties with the local community in support of promoting
work-life balance and child-rearing.
Opening Ceremony
Prior to the start of operations of these facilities, TMC held an
opening ceremony for Bubu Forest on March 20 at the site.
In addition to representatives of the Heiwa-cho area, Senior
Managing Officer Tatsuro Ueda of TMC attended the opening ceremony
and shared TMC's perspective on work style reform, stating that,
"It's important to find ways to help employees attain greater
balance in both their work and child-rearing responsibilities,
through the expansion of on-site child care facilities that offer
flexible services in the early morning and overnight hours in
response to the unique work schedules faced by those in the
manufacturing and automobile industries."
TMC will utilize new ideas and emergent challenges, both borne from
diversified values and perspectives, to continue to further enhance
competitiveness in pursuit of creating ever-better cars, while also
aiming to be an attractive organization to even more people.
About Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is the global mobility company that
introduced the Prius hybrid-electric car in 1997 and the first
mass-produced fuel cell sedan, Mirai, in 2014. Headquartered in
Toyota City, Japan, Toyota has been making cars since 1937. Today,
Toyota proudly employs 370,000 employees in communities around the
world. Together, they build around 10 million vehicles per year in
29 countries, from mainstream cars and premium vehicles to
mini-vehicles and commercial trucks, and sell them in more than 170
countries under the brands Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino. For
more information, please visit www.toyota-global.com.
Source: Toyota
Contact:
Public Affairs Division
Global Communications Department
Toyota Motor Corporation
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