Social | Relationship with Employees

Creating entertainment culture requires that creators themselves make time for play.

At Capcom, we have established Paid Leave Promotion Days and encourage employees to take extended leave to refresh and look for new sources of inspiration during the year-end/New Year’s holidays as well as during the series of holidays in May. As part of our efforts to support childcare and nursing care, we encourage employees to take childcare and nursing care leave, opened Capcom Juku as an on-site daycare facility, and enhanced our childcare and nursing care support system with teleworking options to help our employees achieve a work-life balance, establishing a stable work environment for creators. Capcom Juku, which primarily provides care for infants and young children, is conveniently located near our offices, helping employees balance work and childcare.

The employee cafeteria serves healthy meals for breakfast, lunch, and supper, and sells bento boxes at the building next to the head office. There is also a massage room staffed by nationally-certified massage therapists at both the Tokyo and Osaka locations to support our employees in managing their health.

In order for management to gain an understanding of the needs of employees directly from the source, we are enhancing engagement by creating more opportunities for direct dialogue between management and employees through information sessions and other channels for exchanging ideas. A total of 14 management briefings and other events for employees were held in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, with more than 870 employees participating.

One of the most important parts of motivating developers working in a creative field such as games is providing access to an environment that allows them to bring their ideas to life. Capcom maintains a cutting-edge development environment that includes 3D scanners, a motion capture studio, a dynamic sound mixing stage, and a Foley stage. In this way, we support our creators in fulfilling their vision. In March 2023, we established and launched operations at our new Creative Studio in Osaka City, equipped with one of the largest motion capture studios in Japan.

Given the desire to quickly improve the issue of long day care waiting lists accompanying a lack of preschools, Capcom’s top management set its sights on the future, desiring to provide an environment in which employees can raise their children with peace of mind while remaining employed over the long term. We operate Capcom Juku aiming to add individual education and growth to standard day care for children.

In addition to providing childcare for 1- to 2-year-olds before they start school, Capcom Juku hosts various events for employees’ elementary and junior high school-aged children during long holidays like summer vacation. These events include programming classes, game development workshops, and parent-child lunches. The facility goes beyond caring for infants and preschool children and accept a wide range of youth, including after-school kindergarten and elementary school students. This helps employees avoid the stress of not being able to find open facilities for their children. Furthermore, by offering personal educational support in the form of a place for learning English, eurhythmics, art and design, and other subjects, Capcom Juku joins its efforts with employees and fosters the growth of children. Currently, as of March 31, 2024, the school takes care of 23 children a month and has provided temporary services for 338 people in aggregate.

In the future, we will create a learning atmosphere at Capcom Juku that stimulates and broadens children’s curiosity, while also striving for an environment where parents can work with peace of mind so that both they and their families can lead fulfilling lives.

In terms of providing an environment that facilitates women, we introduced systems enabling women to take a leave of absence before and after giving birth, childcare leave and shortened working hours, and promote their use throughout the Company. In fiscal 2023, 76.9% of eligible employees took childcare leave. The ratio was 66.7% among men and 114.3%* among women (fiscal 2022: 52.5%, consisting of 45.5% among men and 85.7%* among women). The ratio of those returning to work afterwards is also high: 100% returned in fiscal 2023 (100% also returned in fiscal 2022). As a result, despite it being said that Japan’s gaming industry is generally dominated by men, women account for roughly 21.2% of Capcom’s workforce, and 33 (12%) of Capcom’s managers are women. In accordance with the execution of the Act on Advancement of Measures to Support Raising Next-Generation Children and the Act on Promotion of Women’s Participation and Advancement in the Workplace, in April 2024 we formulated the General Employer Action Plan with two key goals to achieve by the end of the fiscal 2028: (1) raising the paternity leave rate to 85% or higher (up from 66.7% as of March 31, 2024) and (2) reducing the gender pay gap among full-time employees, aiming for a ratio of at least 88% (83.8% as of March 31, 2024, calculated by dividing the average salary of female employees by that of male employees).

* These figures include the number of employees who took childcare leave across fiscal years.

Further, regarding the proactive utilization of its foreign national employees, we are focusing on active recruitment, career advancement support, promoting foreign nationals to management positions, and offering Japanese language education programs. To create a more comfortable working environment for foreign employees, we provide support in securing housing when relocating to Japan, offer special leave for temporary visits to their home countries, and hold opinion exchange meetings between foreign employees and management to better understand their needs. We currently employ 216 foreign nationals (representing 6.8% of our employees). Going forward, we will continue to develop systems that enhance motivation and promote diversity.

Number and Ratio of Foreign Employees (Capcom Co., Ltd.)