Toward sustainability management

Toshiba TEC has a long-standing commitment to CSR activities. Our manufacturing sites continue to maintain environmental initiatives and ISO certifications. The social contribution activities we conduct in local communities as a good corporate citizen have become established at our sites in Japan and abroad. We will continue to value these activities going forward.
To respond to society's demands for "sustainability management," we identified our Materiality (key issues) in 2022. Although we had previously been implementing Environment (E), Social (S), and Governance (G) initiatives, publicizing our mid-term goals and achievements externally has given us the opportunity to consider how we can exert even more effort in our initiatives. My feeling is this has led to increased materiality-related discussion and reporting at Board meetings.
In the past, we disclosed Environmental targets and actual results even before identifying materiality, but with regard to Social and Governance, we disclosed actual results but excluded targets. We hope that providing specific information on what Toshiba TEC is working toward in terms of ESG will heighten the excitement among our stakeholders about the company's future.

Human capital initiatives toward "human resources we are aiming for"

In recent years, we have focused our efforts on human capital. To achieve our goal of becoming a "global top solutions partner," we have redefined the image of the human resource we are aiming for and are formulating measures to bring this to fruition. We have, for instance, activated the rotation of personnel to different departments and reinforced our global training programs to enhance the capabilities of our human resources. We also provide e-learning and career autonomy support training to meet the needs of diverse human resources-women, younger employees, and seniors, among others. Offsite Meetings^*, in which people from all levels of the company-including Board members-engage in frank discussions, are also conducted to promote a change in culture through honest dialogue.
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Further contribution to resolving social issues

The term "sustainability transformation" (SX) is becoming increasingly common. Simply stated, this refers to consideration for both societal and corporate sustainability and developing the business over the long term, which is regarded as an effective approach to continuing and growing the business in the highly uncertain times of today.
From the perspective of SX, we do not yet consider our sustainability activities to be sufficient. The reason is that we want to and should be able to contribute more to the resolution of social issues with Toshiba TEC products and services. We already have products adapted to environmental issues and that contribute to the reduction of paper consumption. As we aim to become a "global top solutions partner" that leverages data, however, we believe we can also address social issues in another way. I further believe that, in co-creation activities with customers and partners, we can discuss social issues as common challenges and expand the possibilities for solutions.

We will strive to contribute to social issue resolution by working collaboratively with customers and partners to create an ecosystem, and by cooperating with related departments in house.