GMO Internet Group
We have started providing meal kits at our employee cafeteria as a welfare benefit to support our partners (employees) in raising children! [GMO Internet Group]
Supporting “improving housework efficiency” born from the voices of working fathers and mothers
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GMO Internet Group (Group Representative: Masatoshi Kumagai), which develops internet infrastructure, advertising, finance, and crypto asset businesses under the slogan “Internet for everyone,” will start offering take-home services from May 7, 2024 (Tuesday). We have started offering “GMO Yours Home Meal”, a ready-to-eat frozen meal kit (*1), to our partners (employees) at our company cafeteria.
“GMO Yours Home Meal” aims to support your partner’s family time by improving time performance on housework. This program allows you to make more meaningful use of the precious time you spend with your children and family.
GMO Internet Group will support our partners’ family time through this new welfare program, and as a result, by providing the best service, we will create smiles and excitement for our partners, customers, and shareholders. Masu.
[Image 1: https://prtimes.jp/i/136/4403/resize/d136-4403-b199d2304862b8edcac9-0.jpg&s3=136-4403-78dff66e6e2b88b46689b1b942a86dd6-1920×1080.jpg] (*1) A meal kit is a set of dishes that includes ingredients and instructions, and is generally sold through food delivery services. Since the food only requires simple preparation such as defrosting, it can be prepared in a short time while maintaining nutritional value and safety.
[What is “GMO Yours Home Meal”]
“GMO Yours Home Meal” is a pre-cooked frozen meal kit with carefully controlled salt content and nutritional balance. The shape of the dish remains the same, and the fish bones are removed so that it is easy for anyone to eat. Therefore, not only children, but also the elderly and their partners in general can enjoy healthy meals and help prevent lifestyle-related diseases.
[Image 2: https://prtimes.jp/i/136/4403/resize/d136-4403-7c7b492b91781b0e08a1-9.jpg&s3=136-4403-22c1c58fb53a7cc86a94df1441592963-2000×1333.jpg] Regular meal kits may be difficult to receive at home if you are working on weekdays, but “GMO Yours Home Meal” is provided at “GMO Yours”, a communication space that is a company cafeteria attached to the office. Therefore, we believe that being able to pick up the items and take them home is a major benefit for working father/mother partners.
▲ “GMO Yours Home Meal” 1 set example
*Lunch bags will not be provided.
■Background of the launch of “GMO Yours Home Meals”
At GMO Internet Group, we have set up a communication space called “GMO Yours” in our office, and we support the mental and physical health of our partners by providing a lunch menu that is supervised by a registered dietitian and is conscious of its calorie and nutritional balance. Masu. “GMO Yours Home Meal” was made possible by leveraging the basic philosophy and meal provision know-how of “GMO Yours.”
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▲ Receipt ▲ Menu example
■Summary
[Table 4: https://prtimes.jp/data/corp/136/table/4403_1_c14dcb8e01218859cb7ed5c9262dc63d.jpg] ■Menu example
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■The trigger was “voices” from partners (employees)
In order to respect the opinions of our partners, GMO Internet Group operates an internal suggestion system called “Kuma Mimi” that allows all partners to freely make suggestions for improvement regarding the company. All proposals received at “Kumamimi” will be considered with the board members.
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At the end of January 2024, “Kuma Mimi” received a proposal to provide take-out meals to families with children to help them balance work and family. It has been pointed out that returning home to cook after working at the office is a huge time and physical burden, and as a result, people are forced to make food choices that are unsafe for their health. .
■Investigating needs through internal questionnaires
In response to this proposal, we conducted a “meal kit survey” for partners to investigate internal needs.
81% of respondents from households with children expressed the desire to use meal kits, saying that by improving their time performance on housework, they could “create more time to spend with their children” and “maintain and improve their children’s health by providing balanced meals.” Many people expressed their expectations for the effects of this.
In addition, the survey showed that there were many requests for meals for the elderly and regular partners living together, so we decided to provide meals that can be enjoyed by a wide range of generations, not just children.
■Holding a tasting event
Based on the results of the survey, we held a free meal kit tasting event in April 2024. More than 60 partners participated, and in the tasting survey, more than 80% of participants responded that they would like to purchase meal kits.
After final adjustments were made after completing a questionnaire at the tasting event, we decided to start providing “GMO Yours Home Meals” on May 7, 2024, just four months after the proposal from our partners.
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▲Tasting party ▲Set example
■ Opinions of partners who participated in the tasting event ・I immediately ate a hamburger that night. My child also ate it and loved it. ・I am very grateful that it has come this far in such a short period of time since Kuma Mimi’s post.
・There are times when I feel like preparing meals every day is a burden, so this welfare benefit was very helpful.
・žThis is especially useful as we head into summer, when it comes to worrying about making prepared side dishes in advance.
In the future, we will continue to improve our meal kits, provide other childcare support, and improve health management based on the opinions of our partners.
[About work style support for child-rearing households]
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▲ “Kids Room GMO Bears”
[About health management]
GMO Internet Group believes that in order to provide the best services to our customers, it is important for our partners to be physically and mentally healthy. We are promoting initiatives for even higher quality health management, such as expanding welfare facilities.
[Table 5: https://prtimes.jp/data/corp/136/table/4403_2_721f980620cc17b7f90a3fcc45f66a14.jpg] In recognition of these efforts, we have been certified as a “Health and Productivity Management Organization (Large Corporation Category)” jointly selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Nippon Kenko Kaigi for two consecutive years starting in 2023. (*2)
(*2) GMO Internet Group has been certified as a 2024 Health and Productivity Management Organization (Large Enterprise Category) for the second consecutive year!
https://www.gmo.jp/news/article/8868/
[About GMO Internet Group]
GMO Internet Group is a comprehensive internet group that operates the internet advertising and media business, internet finance business, and crypto asset business, with the main focus being the internet infrastructure business, which provides services that serve as the foundation of business from domains to security and payments. In addition, with the goal of “becoming the No. 1 corporate group that creates the future with AI,” all group partners will utilize generative AI to 1. save time and costs, 2. improve the quality of existing services, and 3. We are moving forward with providing new services to the AI industry.
In order to provide services that please our customers quickly and at low prices, our basic policy is to in-house everything from equipment selection to installation, construction, development, and operation. Therefore, of the approximately 7,400 partners of the 110 group companies, 49.5% are developers (engineers and creators) who are responsible for IT manufacturing. (※3)
(*3) As of the end of March 2024
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that’s all
[GMO Internet Group, Inc.] (URL: https://www.gmo.jp/)
Company name: GMO Internet Group, Inc. (TSE Prime Market Stock Code: 9449) Address: Cerulean Tower, 26-1 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Representative: Representative Director and Group Representative: Masatoshi Kumagai
Business details ■Internet financial business ■Crypto asset business Capital: 5 billion yen
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