Basic Policy

Sumitomo Forestry strives to create an environment that enables employees to exchange their opinions freely and perform their responsibilities with vigor, integrity and consideration for others. We want each and every employee to achieve growth in a corporate culture of respect for individual employees and fair evaluation of accomplishments and efforts made by employees.

Communication in Employee Evaluation and Job Execution

Sumitomo Forestry gives all employees feedback on their evaluation results, with the main objective of nurturing and developing human resources through employee evaluations.

Employees are interviewed by their supervisors every six months and briefed on the setting of their individual targets and their evaluation results. Also, through mid-term 1-on-1 meetings, they check the progress on the targets and capacity building and review the relevant plans as necessary.

Multi-faceted evaluation (360-degree feedback)

At Sumitomo Forestry, we also conduct multi-faceted evaluation (360 Degree Evaluation) in which employees are evaluated based on "one-to-many" relationship with the people who work with them, rather than "one-to-one" relationship between supervisors and subordinates. In fiscal 2025, the evaluation program was implemented for all employees responsible for management in the organization. From these results, we provide feedback to help each employee precisely recognize their current situation and gain hints into specific management actions as well as help them formulate and execute independent action plans. These evaluation results are also shared with their supervisors and senior managers of their organization for use as reference materials to give guidance and conduct evaluation on their behaviors.

New Value Evaluation

In 2024, we introduced the New Value Evaluation with a focus on the growth of individual employees as a foundation for their medium and long-term development and to evaluate the acquisition and utilization of skills by the employees. The evaluation criteria are clarified to provide the definition of the ability grade for each job type and grade, and the growth of each employee will be absolutely evaluated against these criteria.

In addition, once a year, the Personnel Department directly interviews all employees to listen to their opinions about their work and workplace, transfer requests, family circumstances and others on a self-reporting basis.

Employee Satisfaction Survey

Sumitomo Forestry conducted the 15th employee satisfaction survey in July 2025.

In the survey, 87 questions were asked in 10 categories: work; workload; workplace; supervisor; evaluation, treatment and skill development; career; management and vision; customer first; compliance; and satisfaction.

Sample survey items

• - I feel fulfilled in my current job
• - I don’t experience mental or physical discomfort while working
• - I have a dream, goal, or aspiration, or what I want to do with the company
• - I feel satisfied working for the company

The questionnaire survey targeted full-time and fixed-term employees and 5,227 people responded to it with a response rate of 96.0%.

As a result of the survey, when asked whether or not they were satisfied working for Sumitomo Forestry, 81.0% of employees answered either "Absolutely " or "Yes, if I have to choose.

Furthermore, this survey was conducted jointly with 30 Group companies in Japan, targeting 14,175 employees, including fixed-term employees and some part-time employees, with a response rate of 91.6%.

Sumitomo Forestry plans to continue conducting this annual employee satisfaction survey across all Group companies in Japan to understand yearly changes.

Employee Satisfaction Survey Response Rate
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Employee Satisfaction Survey Results
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Relationship with the Labor Union