Giving Back To Society
As a company, we have a responsibility towards our team members but also our society. To take on this Corporate Social Responsibility, we defined a common set of values that form the basis of our work.
At Avinton, we provide fair conditions and a healthy work-life balance, flat organizational structures, and follow strict labor standards regarding health and safety. We offer consulting services and system development to help make deeper sense of our surroundings and transform how we utilize technology. We not only want to develop excellent engineers but also people who care about others.
By donation initiatives or visiting welfare facilities that technicians don’t usually visit or interact with, we get an understanding that society is based on the cooperation and contributions of everyone.
Environmental Sustainability
It is our goal to reduce environmental impacts in our business activities. On our mission to become a “paperless office”, we aim to use a minimal amount of paper and encourage all of our employees, suppliers and customers to use electronic signatures and avoid sending paperwork back and forth. We use digital documents and online applications, and store soft copies to be able to share them with the team and check them remotely.
We regularly organize volunteering activities, encouraging our members to play an active role in restoring and protecting the environment.
Inclusion & Diversity
A diverse team will create diverse solutions. At Avinton, we are proud of our highly skilled members. So far, they not only originate from more than 33 different countries (40% Japanese / 60% non-Japanese) but also have various educational backgrounds. We aim to provide a flat work environment that respects and values different perspectives, talents and experiences. We believe that being oneself cultivates trust – the foundation for an effective working relationship.
Our training and career development opportunities allow both newcomers and experienced professionals of different age groups to build or expand a successful career in IT. We also aim to increase the number of women in the industry. Our CEO Sachiko Nakase, as well as 90% of our back-office members, are women between 20 and 50 years old. In our regular “Women Meetup” we openly discuss the challenges of handling career and family life, as well as the great opportunities for women at Avinton.
Read more on our career opportunities here.
SDGs in Detail
Goals
Quality Education
Target:
By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Our Contribution:
It is an essential part of our business to actively recruit inexperienced engineers and expand their career opportunities. We offer a training program based on our original OKR method, technical training and skill improvement, purchasing of study literature, and a support system to acquire certain qualifications. We also offer free programming classes for children from single-parent families to help them acquire skills to quickly establish credibility and value in the job market. Furthermore, we visit people with disabilities at welfare facilities in order to raise awareness of their situation.
Recipients:
Potential candidates and employees
Categories:
Economic and social
Gender Equality
Targets:
End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
Our Contribution:
We are actively encouraging women to join the company. Almost 100% of our back-office members are female, including our CEO. We are committed to creating an environment where it is easy to balance work and family life.
Recipients:
Potential female candidates and employees
Category:
Economic and social
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Target:
A. Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises including through access to financial services.
B. By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value.
Our Contribution:
A. We are participating in an industry-academia-government-private project led by Kanagawa University to promote data-based solutions to problems in the tourism industry. The aim of the project is to create horizontal links with neighboring organizations and to create new value by using our technology to demonstrate how tourism demand – which fell during the COVID-19 pandemic – can be recovered. We are also hosting some of the university students involved in the project and providing them with training in data technology.
B. It is an essential part of our business to actively recruit inexperienced engineers and expand their career opportunities. We offer a training program based on our original OKR method, technical training and skill improvement, purchasing of study literature, and a support system to acquire certain qualifications. We also offer free programming classes for children from single-parent families to help them acquire skills to quickly establish credibility and value in the job market. Furthermore, we visit people with disabilities at welfare facilities in order to raise awareness of their situation.
Recipients:
A. City of Yokohama
B. Potential candidates and employees
Categories:
A, B. Economic and social
Reduced Inequalities
Target:
By 2030, empower and promote the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status.
Our Contribution:
We believe that a diverse team will create diverse solutions. Our members not only originate from more than 33 different countries (40% Japanese / 60% non-Japanese) but also have various educational backgrounds. We aim to provide a flat work environment that respects and values different perspectives, talents, and experiences. We believe that being oneself cultivates trust – the foundation for an effective working relationship.
Recipients:
Motivated female workers
Category:
Economic and social
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target:
By 2030, reduce the adverse per capita environmental impact of cities, including by paying special attention to air quality and municipal and other waste management.
Our Contribution:
We are participating in a project to build an erosion control forest on the coast of the prefecture. It is our younger members who are actively supporting this project, as we know that the maintenance of erosion control forests (preventing sand splashes and salt damage) is physically demanding work. It is an important project protecting the lives of local communities.
We also regularly conduct environment protection activities, such as cleaning up around our office and Yokohama station, and beach clean-ups.
Recipients:
Local communities
Category:
Environment
Responsible Consumption and Production
Target:
A. By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
B. By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
C. By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.
Our Contribution:
A. We have adopted a paperless system to use our limited resources and human resources most effectively. We do not use hard copies unless it is requested by public institutions or customers.
B. In order to reduce food waste, we provide unused food stock to community cafeterias, meal delivery services, and children’s facilities through city organizations.
C. Through our agricultural support activities, we try to raise awareness for the importance of sustainable development and the people involved in agriculture. We also incorporate environmental protection practices into our day-to-day operations, such as switching off servers when they are not in use.
Recipients:
A. Internal and external stakeholders
B. Local communities
C. Employees
Categories:
A. Environmental
B, C. Social and environmental
Partnerships for the Goals
Target:
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favorable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed.
Our Contribution:
We are participating in an industry-academia-government-private project led by Kanagawa University to promote data-based solutions to problems in the tourism industry. The aim of the project is to create horizontal links with neighboring organizations and to create new value by using our technology to demonstrate how tourism demand – which fell during the COVID-19 pandemic – can be recovered. We are also hosting some of the university students involved in the project and providing them with training in data technology.
Recipients:
City of Yokohama
Categories:
Social and environmental
Our Recent Activities
Helping Farmers
A group of Avinton members took part in the vegetable harvest at a farm for people with disabilities. The work was followed by a delicious BBQ lunch and a fun ninja experience.
Planting Trees
At the Shonan coast, a protective forest keeps the coastline and nearby dwellings safe. Organized by NPO Global Greening Center, Avinton members volunteered to plant trees and weed the forest.
Cleaning Japan’s Beaches
Our volunteers went to the popular Katase beach close to Enoshima to help clean the beach from litter. The volunteer work was followed by a communal lunch and sightseeing in the area.
Cleaning Our Neighborhood
In a monthly neighborhood clean-up as part of the “Welcome Yokohama Clean Supporter” program by Yokohama City, Avinton members collect litter during office hours. We are committed to creating a clean and comfortable space for both visitors and residents.