As a global organization, NTT Communications meets its social responsibilities by creating workplaces that foster personal development and by tackling social issues.

Respecting Diversity

• Offering Equal Opportunities for Women

  We employ, train, and promote women through action plans to help them balance their professional and private lives. We base our efforts on our Women's Training and Advancement Plan and the Law to Promote Measures for the Support of Next-Generation Training Initiatives, which the Japanese government announced in July 2003. We will build on our commitment to women’s advancement in the years ahead.

  Women in Positions above Assistant Manager

  Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  128	140

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

  Numbers of Employees and New Recruits by Gender

  	Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  Number of employees	7,650	8,750
  Male	6,916	7,900
  Female	734	850
  New recruits	225	211
  Male	159	148
  Female	66	63

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

• Helping Employees Fulfill Home Commitments

  We instituted a system to help all employees balance their working lives with commitments to caring for their children and elderly relatives. The NTT Group created a website to encourage employees to meet their private obligations. The site details childcare and eldercare programs. It also features childcare, eldercare, and other social service programs from the public and private sectors and informs about social security systems. Employees have lauded the website for easing their returns from leave.

  We will encourage more employees to use our programs so they can nurture the young and old and help address social issues stemming from Japan’s declining birthrate.

  Overview of Support Systems and User Numbers in Fiscal 2006

  System	Overview	Number of users
  		Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  Maternity leave	6 weeks before and 8 weeks after birth	53	57
  Childcare leave	Leave for up to 3 years after childbirth	80 (including 1 male employee)	99 (including 2 male employees)
  Special working system to assist childcare	A reduction of 4, 5, or 6 hours weekly for childcare until a child reaches the age of 7 (until end of first year of elementary school)	60 (including 1 male employee)	93 (including 4 male employees)
  Eldercare leave	To care for elderly family members, employees may take leave of up to 93 days as designated by law, plus 15 months under company rules	5 (including 2 male employees)	3 (including 1 male employee)
  Reduced working hours for eldercare	To care for elderly family members, employees may take leave of up to 93 days as designated by law and work for 4 to 6 hours fewer weekly for up to 33 months	0	1

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

• Offering Opportunities for People with Disabilities

  Since our establishment, we have consistently hired people with disabilities in keeping with legislation. Although such people represented again represented 1.41% of our workforce in fiscal 2006, we are determined to reach the statutory rate of 1.8%. We will also comprehensively assist these people to improve their quality of life.

  Activities of Overseas Group Companies

  

  Stephen Bloom
  Vice President of Business Development at
  NTT America, Inc.

  The number of NTT America employees tripled in January 2006 when two large divisions transitioned over from affiliate company Verio. NTT America now has locations nationwide, plus a significant number of home office and remote employees. We have harnessed audio and videoconferencing to build a flexible and eco-friendly work environment.

  Going forward, we expect to see continued diversification in lifestyles and work preferences. NTT America will work to accommodate those trends, so we can hire and retain the best.

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Creating Attractive Workplaces

• Work-Life Committee

  Average Annual Overtime Per Employee

  Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  299hours	289hours

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

  NTT Communications aims to build more satisfying workplaces for all employees while balancing their professional and private lives. We therefore brought Company and union representatives together in the Work-Life Committee, which considers ways to reduce total working hours.

  Initiatives to cut these hours in fiscal 2006 included designating days on which all employees must leave work by certain times and regularly distribution bulletins on balancing work and private lives.

  We are accordingly streamlining operations while improving employee productivity, which should help improve our business results.

• Occupational Safety and Health

  Number of Occupational and Commuting Accidents

  Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  4	6

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

  Employee safety is a top priority. We prevent accidents place by reviewing working environments and operations manuals, using case studies to raise awareness of safety issues, and conducting frequent safety inspections. We created a system to quickly share accident information, contacting customers as necessary and notifying and warning all employees. The goals are to prevent recurrences and maintain work safety.

  Mental healthcare initiatives include seminars and employee consultation desks inside and outside the organization.

  In fiscal 2006, 3,360 employees attended mental healthcare seminars. We aim to attract more employees to such events as part of our health education programs while seeking more ways to enhance work safety and comfort.

• Fringe Benefits

  Number of Cafeteria Plan Menus

  Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  45	49

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

  We offer various benefits to all employees throughout their time in our organization. Our cafeteria plan provides extensive menu options. We also provide life design education and consultations.

• Supporting Volunteer Activities

  

  Participants in farm experience program

  
  

  A staffer provides personal computer instruction

  We help employees fulfill their potential as citizens through several leave systems for volunteer activities.

  We foster the activities of employee volunteers and nonprofit organizations through the Volunteer Gift Program.

  Fiscal 2006 marked the eighth year since the program’s inception. During the term, we supported four organizations in which our employees are involved. For example, we donated computers and other equipment to Ban Rom Sai, a Thai orphanage for children infected with HIV. We gave a mini-tractor to the Yokoi Yume Club, which runs a farm experience program for children.

  Number of Employees Using Our Volunteer Leave System

  Fiscal 2005	Fiscal 2006
  41	42

  (Coverage: NTT Communications)

  See the following Japanese-language website for details:http://www.ntt.com/community/