「くるみん」企業の実態からみる効果的な次世代育成支援戦略

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The objectives of this paper are to clarify the situation of kurumin companies, the leading ones in supporting employees' childcare in Japan, and to discuss the breakthroughs that are needed to solve their problems. This study surveyed all kurumin companies from March to May 2009. The main conclusions are as follows: Firstly, they have actively planned and practiced supporting employees’ childcare in order to recruit top-class personnel and to improve their employees’ work-life balance. Secondly, they have discovered the benefit of this work. They are, however, facing many problems. For example, in these companies, childcare support for male employees and long working hours have not improved enough. And some female employees want to delay their career advancement. From these results, it is important that kurumin companies should consider female employees as essential members, that they should understand the concept of “work-life synergy”, and that they should have a sense of responsibility when it comes to supporting childcare. These seem to be effective ways of raising next-generation children. In addition to these points, overtime should be eliminated. And the companies have to consider whether their childcare policies are really financial burdens.