Fuji Xerox Revises Child Support Program to Enhance Work Life Balance

TOKYO, March 10, 2008 — Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. will revise its child support program effective April 1, 2008.

As one measure to boost value provided to customers and to further strengthen its competitiveness, Fuji Xerox recognizes the importance of creating a work environment in which a variety of people can work to maximum potential in an enjoyable way. The revision of the current program aims to have the values of diversity and work life balance take root within the company, as well as to encourage the recruitment of diverse people who are expected to keep working with Fuji Xerox.

The revisions are as follows:

1. Employees can take more days off when his wife gives birth.
2. Employees can reduce working hours for childcare purposes until the end of the child’s 3rd year at an elementary school, which is longer period than the current program.
3. Employees with a child up to 6th grade are exempt from working at night as well as overtime, expanding the applicable period.
4. Some restriction for reemployment are lifted.

Balancing Work and Family Life

Under the New Work Way in 1988, which was a movement to innovate traditional management models based on the policies of "respect for the individual" and "creating jobs and work environments that bring out individual creativity," Fuji Xerox has long sought to create environments and a corporate culture that encourage a balance between work and family life. Efforts include the introduction of a childcare leave program in 1988 and a family nursing care leave program in 1990. In 2002, Fuji Xerox was the recipient of the outstanding performance award sponsored by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in recognition of being a "family-friendly organization". In line with the content of its First Action Plan in accordance with the Law for Measures to Support the Development of the Next Generation enacted in 2005, efforts were made to realize greater use of the various internal programs already in place. In April 2007, Fuji Xerox was certified as a successful company on the law. In the period from April 1, 2006 to the end of March 2007, 98 percent of female employees who had given birth were on the childcare leave.