ESG Data

Human Resources

Ratio of Female Employees and Managers

Regular employees as of April

		2020		2021		2022		2023		2024
		Men	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Men	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Men	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Men	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Men	Ratio of female to male employees (%)
		Women	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Women	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Women	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Women	Ratio of female to male employees (%)	Women	Ratio of female to male employees (%)
Benesse Corporation	Employees	1,007	53	1,087	53	1,127	52	1,173	52	1,651	48
	Employees	1,152	53	1,218	53	1,220	52	1,259	52	1,544	48
	Section managers	134	35	149	35	157	35	143	38	185	36
	Section managers	73	35	82	35	85	35	89	38	103	36
	Departmental directors	41	35	47	33	67	31	71	29	72	27
	Departmental directors	22	35	23	33	30	31	29	29	27	27
	Executives	12	14	11	15	9	10	13	13	13	13
	Executives	2	14	2	15	1	10	2	13	2	13
Benesse Style Care	Employees	3,438	64	3,597	64	3,585	64	3,624	64	3,628	64
	Employees	6,008	64	6,267	64	6,430	64	6,521	64	6,506	64
	Section managers	305	39	317	37	329	37	340	36	341	37
	Section managers	191	39	190	37	190	37	194	36	198	37
	Departmental directors	85	20	87	17	86	20	87	22	90	20
	Departmental directors	21	20	18	17	22	20	25	22	23	20
	Executives	9	18	9	10	9	10	8	20	8	20
	Executives	2	18	1	10	1	10	2	20	2	20

Number of Hires by Gender (Benesse Corporation)

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

		2021	2022	2023	2024	2025*
New graduates	Male	60	29	35	52	61
	Female	65	37	24	40	36
	Total	125	66	59	92	97
Mid-career	Male	54	68	104	105	—
	Female	31	27	81	60	—
	Total	85	95	185	165	—
Total		210	161	244	257	—

*as of April 2024

Ratio of Employees with Disabilities (Benesse Group)

As of June 1

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Ratio of Employees	2.58%	2.47%	2.54%	2.51%	2.60%

* Ratio of employees with disabilities at Group companies subject to the Employment Quota System for Persons with Disabilities

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Number of Employees Who Took Childcare Leave and Returned from Leave

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

	2020		2021		2022		2023		2024
	Number of Employees Taking Leave	Number of Returnees	Number of Employees Taking Leave	Number of Returnees	Number of Employees Taking Leave	Number of Returnees	Number of Employees Taking Leave	Number of Returnees	Number of Employees Taking Leave
Benesse Corporation (full-time employees, specialists, contract employees)	56	57	52	59	76	85	80	84	123
Benesse Style Care (full-time employees, specialists, associate employees)	267	236	252	232	301	225	307	267	312

* Returnees: Employees who return to work within the time limit for leave under each company's system

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Ratio of men taking childcare leave

Year ended 31 March of each year (%)

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Benesse Corporation (full-time employees, specialists, contract employees)	62	49	51	51	66
Benesse Stlye Care (full-time employees, specialists, associate employees)	50	58	49	58	65

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Number of employees who have obtained shorter working hours for childcare

As of April

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Benesse Corporation (full-time employees, specialists, contract employees)	76	50	53	58	41
Benesse Style Care (full-time employees, specialists, associate employees)	230	280	280	290	299

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Number of Employees Receiving Childcare Allowance (Benesse Style Care)

As of June

2020	373
2021	414
2022	381
2023	411
2024	378

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Work-life Management Data (Benesse Corporation)

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year / Full-time employees

		2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Overtime work hours*		34.3 hours	38.2 hours	39.6 hours	38.9 hours	41.0 hours
Annual leave utilization rate		60%	52%	54%	60%	60%
Number of employees taking nursing care leave		0	1	2	1	3
Average years of continuous service	Men	12.0	12.2	13.1	12.6	10.1
Average years of continuous service	Women	12.6	13.0	14.3	13.8	12.2

* Prescribed working hours: 7 hours/day

Gender wage differential (ratio of women's wages to men's wages)

Year ended 31 March (%)

	2023			2024
	fulltime employment	Part-time/fixed-term employment	all workers	fulltime employment	Part-time/fixed-term employment	all workers
Benesse Corporation (full-time employees, specialists, contract employees)	85	88	71	88	91	77
Benesse Stlye Care (full-time employees, specialists, associate employees)	94	109	91	94	109	92

Other relevant information on Group companies (public information under the Women's Success Promotion Act)【Japanese】

Employee Engagement (Benesse Group)

(Year ended 31 March of each year)

	2022	2023		2024
	2022	June	November	June	November
Engagement rating	A	BBB	BBB	A	BBB

※Engagement Ratings：
An indicator of the degree of engagement (mutual understanding and affinity) between a company and its employees.
There are 11 rating levels from AAA to DD.

Employee training costs (Benesse Corporation)

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Total (millions of yen)	142	131	132	176	219
Cost per person (yen)	—	—	91,411	76,905	84,401
Time per person (hours)	—	—	21.9	25.5	23.3

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Environment

Benesse Group environmental policy

Water policy (included in environmental policy)

Policy for reduction in water usage

Benesse Corporation's Okayama and Tokyo headquarters underwent sanitary plumbing work. During this process, we renovated the toilets to reduce water and wastewater consumption in the offices.

	Plan	Results (Reduction rate)
Okayama Head Office (FY2023)	Reduction from base year water and sewage usage	5,764m³ (58.5%)
Tokyo Headquarter (FY2023)	Reduction from base year water and sewage usage	10,085m³ (47.4%)

* Base year: Okayama Headquarters (FY2017), Tokyo Headquarters (FY2019)

Biodiversity policy (included in environmental policy)

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Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 Reduction Targets

<Benesse Corporation>

Fiscal year ending March 31 of each year

	Every fiscal year*	2030*	2041	2050*
Reduction rate for Scope 1 and 2 using 2018 as the baseline year	4.4%	52.8%	100%	100%

* Reduction target has been certified by SBTi

[Date of revision September 29, 2022]

Fiscal year ending March 31 of each year

	Every fiscal year	2030	2050
Reduction rate of Scope 3 using 2018 as the baseline year	1.23%	14.8%	39.4%

2°C target certified by SBTi

< Benesse Group >

Fiscal year ending March 31 of each year

	2030	2041
Reduction rate for Scope 1 and 2 using 2022 as the baseline year	42.4%	100%

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Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 Reduction Results

<Benesse Corporation>

Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 Reduction Results

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

Units:t-CO2	Base year results	Results	Results
Units:t-CO2	2018	2023	2024
Scope 1	120	73	294
Scope 2	7,477	2,989	4,327
Scope 3	220,450	161,356	149,400
Total of Scope 1, 2, and 3	228,047	164,418	154,021
Scope 1, 2, and 3 Specific unit results （Unit sales basis t-CO2/thousand yen）	0.0013	0.0009	0.0009
YoY change		87.03%	97.05%

Date of revision September 17, 2024

[CO2 emissions by scope]

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

Unit: Tons CO2			2022	2023	2024
Scope 1			75	73	294
Scope 2			4,502	2,989	4,327
Scope 3			189,981	161,356	149,400
	1	Purchased products and services	162,462	136,531	127,079
	2	Capital goods	6,583	4,457	4,806
	3	Fuel and energy activities that do not fall under Scope 1 and 2	883	800	918
	4	Transportation and distribution (upstream)	2,834	2,755	1,494
	5	Waste generated from operations	498	515	553
	6	Business trips	1,368	2,671	3,377
	7	Employee commuting	455	1,278	1,416
	8	Leased assets (upstream)	—	0
	9	Transportation and distribution (downstream)	8,335	6,763	4,757
	10	Fabrication of sold products	—	0
	11	Use of sold products	347	304	279
	12	Disposal of sold products	6,216	5,282	4,721
	13	Leased assets (downstream)	0	0	0
	14	Franchises	0	0	0
	15	Investments	0	0	0
Total of Scope 1, 2, and 3			194,558	164,418	154,021

Date of revision September 17, 2024

<Benesse Group>

● Scope 1, 2 and Scope 3 Reduction Results

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

Unit:t-CO2	Base year results	Results	Results
Unit:t-CO2	2022	2023	2024
Scope1	13,447	12,490	10,552
Scope2	43,085	40,878	39,971
Total of Scope 1 and 2	56,532	53,368	50,523
Scope 1 and 2 specific unit results (Unit sales basis t-CO2/thousand yen)	0.1309	0.1296	0.1229
YoY Change		99.00%	94.84%

Date of Publication: March 17, 2025

● Scope 3 Reduction Results

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

Unit:t-CO2	Base year results	Results
Unit:t-CO2	2023	2024
Scope3	429,931	403,420
Total of Scope 1, 2 and 3	483,299	453,943
Scope 1, 2 and 3 specific unit results (Unit sales basis t-CO2/thousand yen)	1.1764	1.1043
YoY Change		93.87%

Date of Publication: March 17, 2025

* Scope 3 of the group has started to be calculated from the 2023 results

Energy Consumption

<Benesse Corporation>

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

	Units	2022	2023	2024
Electricity	GJ	126,773	117,746	98,144
Electricity	(Thousands kWh)	(12,757)	(11,810)	(10,421)
Steam	GJ	5,640	6,420	8,956
City gas	GJ	1,810	1,910	2,071
Diesel oil, Heavy Oil A, Gasoline	GJ	280	214	3,528
Hot and cold water	GJ	6,457	4,034	6,442
Total energy use★	GJ	140,960	130,324	119,141

Date of revision September 17, 2024

<Benesse Group>

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

	Units	2022	2023	2024
Electricity ★	GJ	931,517	918,915	939,922
Electricity ★	(MWh)	(94,067)	(92,798)	(94,852)
Steam ★	GJ	18,402	17,859	15,398
City gas ★	GJ	243,405	221,400	201,195
LPG ★	GJ	2,184	1,930	152
Diesel oil, Heavy Oil A, Kerosene, Gasoline ★	GJ	17,528	19,833	20,698
Total energy use ★	GJ	1,213,036	1,179,937	1,177,365

Date of Publication: March 17, 2025

Resource Consumption, Waste Generation & Recovery Results

Fiscal year ended March 31 of each year

	Units	2022	2023	2024
Paper use ★ *1	t	45,825	38,253	34,088
Water use ★ *2	Thousands m³	1,612	1,557	1,448
Waste (paper) emissions ★ *1	t	1,191	1,196	1,475
Waste (industrial wastes) emissions ★ *3	t	545	475	661
Waste (general wastes) emissions ★ *4	t	—	6,709	7,956
Waste emissions ★ *1	t	1,798	1,204	1,443
Amount of waste recovered ★ *1	t	1,063	815	999
Recycling rate *1	%	59	68	69

Date of Publication: March 17, 2025

*1 Benesse Corporation
*2 Benesse Corporation, Benesse Style Care, Benesse Palette
*3 Benesse Corporation, Benesse Palette
*4 Benesse Style Care Nursing Care Business Burnable

★Third-party assuarance items (third-party assuarance has been received from Socotec Certification Japan K.K. since the fiscal year ending March 31, 2022)

• Energy consumption data is for the Okayama Headquarters, Tokyo Head Office, Benesse Logistics Center, and a property in Takayanagi, Okayama City, Okayama, the seven branch offices as well as Shinken-Zemi tutoring classes.
• Group energy consumption is based on figures from Benesse Holdings and its 39 consolidated subsidiaries.
• Paper usage is calculated excluding office usage.
• Water usage is for the Okayama Headquarters, Tokyo Head Office, Benesse Logistics Center, and Benesse Style Care (housing for seniors). The water source is 100% tap water.
• The figures for waste (industrial waste) emissions for the fiscal year ending March 2024 have been revised due to the addition of Benesse Palette.

Independent Assuarance Report

<Benesse Corporation>

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Independent assuarance report from previous year
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