Nomura Wins Gold and Silver in Gan-Ally-Bu Award 2023
Nomura promotes Health and Productivity Management as part of our proactive management approach to employee health and well-being. We work to improve health outcomes and ensure that our people can work while undergoing treatment for illnesses such as cancer.
Nomura Securities and Nomura Asset Management won the Gold award for the sixth year in a row and second year in a row respectively in the Gan-Ally-Bu Award 2023. Also, Nomura Business Services and Nomura Properties received the Silver award for the third time, Nomura Babcock & Brown for the second time, and Nomura Fiduciary Research & Consulting for the first time. Gan-Ally-Bu is a non-governmental project organized by Gan Ally Bu. Gan Ally Bu's aim is to create workplaces and a society where cancer patients can thrive while receiving treatment. Gan means cancer in Japanese.
In addition to being evaluated on specific initiatives, as part of our recognition for this award, Nomura made a declaration to be an ally to cancer patients and to ensure employees can work while undergoing treatment.
Nomura Group's Initiatives
- Created a "Treatment & Work Coexistence Assistance Guidebook (Individual Version and Manager Version)" for employees battling illnesses such as cancer, and for managers
- Real life experiences of Nomura employees balancing treatment and work are featured on our intranet website
- Roundtable discussion with employees who are cancer survivors (employees who are currently undergoing or have experienced cancer treatment)
- Introduction of follow-up examination leave to be used for follow-up exams after the annual medical checkup, and hourly units of annual leave that can be used to undergo chemotherapy at the hospital and other forms of therapy
- Collaboration between internal occupational health doctors, public health nurses, HR and other departments to create an environment where employees suffering from cancer and other diseases can continue to work
- Broadcast special feature on balancing cancer treatment and work as part of our monthly health program video series to raise employee health literacy
- In "Sustainability NOW," a series of talks on Nomura's website "SDGs with Nomura," an interview was published in which Satoko Kohno and Miho Suzuki, the founders of the Gan Ally Bu, and Senior Managing Director Hiroshi Tanigaki discussed cancer treatment and employment.
Nomura Group is committed to creating a work environment where our people can thrive while fighting cancer. Through our initiatives, we will strive to contribute to a healthy society.
