Ricoh has once again declared June as “Global SDGs Action Month” to encourage all Ricoh employees to consider their contributions to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), take part in environmental and social activities, and establish a sense of fulfilment through work.
The core of the Ricoh Group’s management approach lies in sustainably enhancing corporate value by actively working to address and resolve social issues. Ricoh believes this is achieved by taking on a range of strategic initiatives to drive its contributions to the SDGs. To show its commitment to that belief, Ricoh will implement “Ricoh Global SDGs Action 2022” throughout June.
In the previous fiscal year, the theme of Global SDGs Action Month was “Acceleration of SDGs actions based on materiality.” Ricoh Group companies introduced their social contribution activities, based on materiality and SDGs contributions through their businesses to further strengthen and spread SDG and ESG promotion activities.
This year, activities will be carried out under the theme of “SDGs action drives employees to feel fulfilled and proud about their work.” In an employee survey conducted in Japan in March 2022, 93% of participants responded positively to the idea that efforts to solve social issues were connected to “feeling fulfilled at work.” To build on such positive sentiments, this year’s activities are aimed at helping each Ricoh Group employee understand the SDG efforts of their peers and reaffirm a sense of achievement and fulfilment through work, the company explained.
Ricoh’s founding principles, the “Spirit of Three Loves (love your neighbor, love your country, and love your work),” are in keeping with the notion of a society that leaves no one behind, a key principle of the SDGs. Ricoh believes that every employee must consider how their work will contribute to customers and society, based on the SDGs, and put that knowledge into action. Ricoh added it will continue to work on solving social issues through its business, aiming to realise its vision of “Fulfilment through Work” by 2036, the 100th anniversary of its founding.
