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We Continuously Contribute
to Protecting the Earth’s Future
and the Culture of Living in Housing

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Disaster Recovery Assistance

Relevant SDGs

1:No Poverty

3:Good Health and Well-being

6:Clean Water and Sanitation

9:Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

11:Sustainable Cities and Communities

We Conduct Company-wide Activities for Disaster Recovery
to Help Affected People as Much as Possible

In recent years, Japan often have suffered natural disasters, including earthquakes and typhoons. Once a natural disaster strikes, we at Panasonic Homes promptly set up disaster control headquarters and form a support unit to confirm the safety of our customers living in the affected area and check on damage to their houses. Moreover, the Owner Support Dept. and the Refurbishment Div. take the lead in debris removal, house decluttering, and other disaster recovery activities as the primary support in response to local requests, to allow the customers to go back to their normal lives as soon as possible. After handing over houses to their owners, we provide customers with a comfortable life through continuous support in consideration of their feelings. Click here for details(Japanese only) >>

Note: Depending on the size of the natural disaster and the degree of damage our company suffers, we may be unable to provide disaster recovery assistance.

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GOAL 11
Sustainable
Cities
and
Communities

Panasonic Homes CLUB, a website exclusive to the owners of Panasonic Homes houses, allows us to confirm the safety of the owners in the event of a disaster. When a disaster occurs, our company’s owner support office will send out an email to each of the owners to ask how they are doing, and they can reply to report the situation of damage by smartphone. Even if they are staying in a shelter or are unable to make a phone call, we swiftly grasp and respond to the situation and provide support.

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Customer Support against the COVID-19

Relevant SDGs

3:Good Health and Well-being

5:Gender Equality

8:Decent Work and Economic Growth

13:Climate Action

New Activities out of Consideration
to Each and Everyone’s Health

In terms of our activities toward the containment of the COVID-19, we were quick to fabricate anti-droplet protective panels and panel stands at our factory and install them in our sales offices across Japan. Also, we have offered online services with digital tools as new means of communication with our customers, including live webinars and online sales negotiations. With our solutions that give consideration to each and every person’s health, we have been striving to contribute to achieving the SDGs.

Live webinars

GOAL 12
Responsible Consumption and Production

We hold live webinars on various useful life-related information for customers thinking about becoming homeowners or preparing for inheritance tax. At the live webinars, audiovisual presentations are given by experts in different fields, including home site hunting, storage ideas, ventilation and health, stockpiling in case of emergency, and inheritance tax reduction with rental housing. These webinars can be viewed either at home or on the go. In the days of living with the COVID-19, we have been communicating with our customers in this new style of offering information.

Online sales negotiation service

GOAL 9
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

We have started an online sales negotiation service as a style of sales with top priority given to customers’ safety and health. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we remain in face-to-face contact with customers through web tools and help them obtain satisfying housing. In response to the recent trend of longer time at home, greater focus on comfortable housing, and more diversified lifestyle needs, we will continue to look for the best ways of communication at the front line of sales, hoping to establish a new normal in the time of the coronavirus.

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Work Style Reform

Relevant SDGs

3:Good Health and Well-being

4:Quality Education

5:Gender Equality

8:Decent Work and Economic Growth

9:Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

10:Reduced Inequalities

14:Life Below Water

Ease of Work for Each Employee
as a New Normal

The Panasonic Group has created a slogan for work style reform: “A Better Workstyle.” Under this slogan, we at Panasonic Homes have promoted a work style that gives consideration to the times and the working environment, while valuing each employee’s way of working. For example, we have created a more comfortable workplace environment, worked for diversity of human resources, introduced a system of working from home with a focus on pleasant working conditions during the days of living with the coronavirus, and supported online training for upskilling.

Online training for sales people

GOAL 4
Quality Education

We have moved our in-person employee training online. While giving the utmost consideration to the ensuring of employee safety and health, we provide our sales reps with opportunities to acquire the basic knowledge and skills of housing sales, thereby supporting the upskilling of our human resources, who serve as the backbone of Panasonic Homes.

Efforts at company cafeterias

GOAL 14
Life Below Water

At its company cafeterias, the Panasonic Group uses “sustainable seafood” with certificates of sustainable fishery and farming, chain-of-custody, and traceability. We at Panasonic Homes have introduced sustainable seafood into our company cafeterias at two of our offices, including the head office.
Our company cafeterias not only serve appetizing meals but also adopt a layout that avoids crowdedness in consideration of our employees’ health, helping them work comfortably amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GOAL 8
Decent Work
and Economic
Growth

Survey to Develop a New Way of Working

Last summer, we conducted a company-wide employee survey to consider measures that would lead to work style reform, hoping to give each employee an opportunity to review their way of working and sense of value. According to the results of the survey, about 60% of our employees started working from home to voluntarily avoid going out due to the coronavirus, and about 80% of these work-from-home employees responded that communication from home was as smooth as that at the office. We will examine comments from survey respondents and identified issues, and pursue an even better working environment.

Source: Survey to Develop a New Way of Working
Survey period: 12 days from Thursday, June 25 to Monday, July 6, 2020
Surveyed: Employees of Panasonic Homes Co., Ltd. and Panasonic Home Renovation Co., Ltd.

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Contribution to Local Communities

Relevant SDGs

1:No Poverty

2:Zero Hunger

3:Good Health and Well-being

4:Quality Education

10:Reduced Inequalities

11:Sustainable Cities and Communities

13:Climate Action

16:Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

17:Partnerships for the Goals

We Think about What Companies and Employees
Can Do for Local Communities

We conduct activities in and outside Japan to allow every employee to contribute to the local community. We also cooperate with our labor union and group companies to practice social contribution activities. We would like to support the local communities through labor-management collaboration and contribute to building a sustainable society.

Donation of disinfectant for elementary and junior high schools near our factory

GOAL 3
Good Health and Well-being

As a community-rooted company, Panasonic Homes’ labor union and Koto Factory donated disinfectant to elementary and junior high schools in Higashi-omi, Shiga Prefecture as part of its support measures against the new coronavirus at schools. The disinfectant was distributed through the Higashi-omi City Board of Education to elementary and junior high schools in the city. Our efforts to pursue a safe and secure factory environment also contribute to building a safe and secure local community.

Presentation of donated rice to a children’s cafeteria

GOAL 16
Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

As a social contribution activity to convey our gratitude to local people for their constant support, we presented rice donated from our employees to Omi Children’s Cafeteria, the Creative and Practice Center for Connection in Shiga, the Shiga Prefectural Council of Social Welfare. Through this support for the cafeteria, we also provide opportunities for children to learn about the SDGs in a fun way.

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GOAL 1
No Poverty

Our labor union took the lead in activities to support developing countries through Chobora (“minor volunteer work”), a project to allow individual employees to join social contribution activities. Also, as part of measures to contain the COVID-19, the labor union procured face masks, which were in short supply, for our employees and their families across Japan to ensure their safety. The union donated some of the sales of the face masks to the LOVE POCKET FUND of the Nippon Foundation, a public interest incorporated foundation.

Food aid in Indonesia

GOAL 2
Zero Hunger

PT. PanaHome Deltamas Indonesia (PHDI), a joint venture we established with Sinar Mas Land (a local company) and the Sojitz Group, conducted a volunteer program (SAVASA BANGKITKAN ASA) as part of its CSR activities. In the vicinity of SAVASA, a smart town it is developing in Deltamas City, Bekasi, Indonesia, PHDI delivered food and hygiene products, including face masks, to about 60 households struggling due to job loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tsunagari-no-hiroba

GOAL 13
Climate Action

Tsunagari-no-hiroba (Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture), an afforested square next to the building of Panasonic Homes’ head office, has been developed to contribute to conserving the local ecological network, and to ensure, in the event of a large-scale disaster, business continuity and support for stranded employees. In February 2014, we signed the Osaka Biodiversity Partnership Agreement with Osaka Prefecture, Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture University, and the Research Institute of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Osaka Prefecture. Under the agreement, we contribute to environmental conservation and a safe society by planting the types of trees that match the local climate and natural features, and introducing photovoltaic and wind-power generation.

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In January 2020, Panasonic Homes became a group company of Prime Life Technologies Corporation, which was newly founded by Panasonic Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation with the aim of achieving future-oriented town development.