Pleasant Working Environments

The MEDIPAL Group creates workplace environments in which employees can work without sacrificing their own lifestyles and values, and provides support to help them lead healthy lives, both mentally and physically.

Promoting Workstyle Reform

We are promoting more effective work styles through the introduction of a new work scheme and more flexible systems, including staggered and variable working hours and working from home. We are also working to reduce overtime work and increase the rate of use of paid leave.

Initiatives for Optimal Time Management and Reduction of Overtime Work

Work hours, including the start of work and end of work, are managed and recorded objectively through the use of IC cards and other measures. We work to promote awareness of optimal time management among all employees and hold discussions between labor and management with the aim of reducing overtime work.
These initiatives enable them to work more systematically and efficiently, which can help improve the quality of their work and ensure that they have time to spend with their families or on their own hobbies and studies. These initiatives help to save power, as lighting, multifunction printers, and air-conditioning systems are used for shorter periods of time.

Supporting employees' Work-life Balance

We strive to create employee-friendly workplace environments in which employees can use a number of systems (childcare and nursing care leave systems, shorter working hour system, caregiving leave system, etc.) to realize their work–life balance at every life stage.
MEDICEO CORPORATION also introduced a system to support working while undergoing treatment for infertility in May 2023, and launched a system to support working while undergoing treatment for cancer in April 2024.

Promotion for Male Employees to Take Childcare Leave

The MEDIPAL Group has set a goal of "100% for male employees to take childcare leave by FY2030," and is actively working to promote understanding of diverse work styles and encourage male employees to take childcare leave. Going forward, we will continue to publicize and raise awareness of the system.

Substantial Employee Welfare Benefits

All Group companies offer substantial employee welfare benefits, including systems that offer a leave of absence or grants for employees to develop new skills or increase their motivation for their future career, as well as admission to employee welfare services, Group mutual aid associations, asset accumulation saving systems, and payment of congratulatory or condolence monetary gifts or relieffunds.

Health & Productivity Management

As a distribution group that supports "Pharmaceuticals, Health, and Beauty," the MEDIPAL Group believes that it is the foundation of the company's sustainable development for each employee to have a high level of health awareness and work in an environment where they can thrive.
Therefore, we position maintaining and improving employee health as an important management issue and promote Health and Productivity Management.

MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION / MEDICEO CORPORATION's Health and Productivity Management

Health and Productivity Management Declaration

Our mission is to "reliably deliver needed products, whether in ordinary times or in times of emergency." As a company that plays a part in the medical industry, we aim to create an environment in which each employee can be highly health awareness and actively participate in their work. We believe that this will help us achieve our mission and also serve as the foundation of the company’s sustainable development.
Therefore, we have positioned maintaining and improving the health of our employees as an important management issue, and have established a promotion system and implemented various initiatives.

Yuji Sakon
Managing Director
General Manager of Administration Division, Chairman of CSR Committee
MEDIPAL HOLDINGS CORPORATION

Health and Productivity Management Promotion System

Health and Productivity Management Strategy Map

Health and Productivity Management Indicators

*1 Measured by incorporating the number of days of leave taken due to illness in an employee survey established by the company. The actual value is the average of respondents.

*2 Measured by incorporating the Single-Item Presenteeism Question (SPQ) from the University of Tokyo in an employee survey independently established by the company. The actual value is the average of respondents.

*3 Measured using a 9-item shortened version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in an employee survey established by the company. The average score of the 9 items (0 = not at all - 6 = always) of respondents.

Healthy Management Initiatives

Improvement in Health Checkups and Increase in the Participation Rate

The MEDIPAL Group provides regular health checkups for employees to detect any illness early and to maintain and improve wellness. The participation rate is nearly 100%. Our health checkups offer a wider range of tests than the legal requirements, and we actively encourage employees to receive follow-up health consultations.

Conducting Seminars and Training to Improve Lifestyle Habits and Health Issues

To maintain and improve the health of our employees, we deliver seminars that contribute to the improvement of lifestyle habits and health issues.

Distribution of Seminar Videos on Lifestyle Habits and Mindfulness

Encouraging Employees to Take the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test

The Group employees take the expert course of the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test* in order to improve their health literacy and better contribute to society. To date, a total of 4,206 employees have passed the exam (as of March 31, 2024).

* Japan Master of Health Literacy Test: Conducted by the Japan Master of Health Literacy Test Association, this test program enables participants to gain health literacy based on the latest health information, and acquire qualifications.

Mental Health Measures

The Group is dedicated to protecting the mental health of its employees, provides mental health education and performs awareness-raising activities at all Group companies. We have also establishedan EAP Hotline*.

* EAP (Employee Assistance Program) Hotline: Employee contact point offering counseling on work-related and private concerns.

Introduction of the Shift P Medication Support System

MEDIPAL HOLDINGS has worked with MTI Ltd. since 2019 on “Shift P” project activities that provide medication support for those taking the low-dose pill.
This project also aims to disseminate accurate information on the low-dose pill, increase disease awareness. The concept is to achieve a “shift” in the image of the pill and address problems womenface with period cramps, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), or premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD).
The Shift P medication support system* is a part of this Shift P project. This system has been launched to provide MEDIPAL Group female employees suffering from dysmenorrhea with opportunities for obstetrics and gynecology consultations and medication support to help ease concerns over taking the low-dose in order to create workplace environments where female employees can work in good physical and mental health.

Recognition as “Sports Yell Company 2025”

ATOL CO., LTD. has been recognized as a company that is actively working to promote sports activities to improve the health of its employees, and has been certified as a “Sports Yell Company 2025” by the Japan Sports Agency.

Recognition as a “2025 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organization”

We have been recognized in the 2025 Certified Health & Productivity Management Outstanding Organizations Recognition Program, administered by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi.