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Goals

We aspire to preserve Woven’s working culture, promote a fair and positive workplace, and provide benefits appropriate for work done.

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Representation for All​

Woven Union is a worker union that will be open to any employees of Woven by Toyota in Japan in non-managerial positions. This union is formed by Woven folks for Woven folks to protect our rights and collectively bargain with the company.

Preserving Woven Work Culture​

We believe that a positive work culture promotes productivity and that the teams are most productive and efficient when they have autonomy, have ownership of their working style and agreements and are enabled to make decisions on how to best deliver. Autonomous teams that enjoy leadership’s trust are the most efficient and productive and are the key to future Woven by Toyota’s success.

We state that:

  • Individual members are adults and can best judge for themselves the hours and locations that best suit their job function and individual work style.
  • Each team will decide for itself the balance of work from home, hybrid, or full on site by agreement of its members.
  • Employees’ opinion on work conditions must be respected.

We measure Contribution by results, not by hours worked.

We value failure. Failure provides opportunities to learn. In no case should an employee be punished for failure where the employee can demonstrate value to the company in lessons learned during the event.

Aligned with Toyota​

We support and are excited about Toyota’s effort to contribute to the sustainable development of our society and planet by promoting sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe that our company must follow Toyota and show specific decisive actions towards these goals such as:

  • Wide adoption of remote work to reduce our carbon footprint and create a supportive environment for our employees to balance work and family life.
  • Investing into our IT solutions to create an environment where people can work and collaborate efficiently regardless of their working location.
  • Transforming our work culture to be “remote-first” and make teleworking provide the same or better experience that travelling to an office provides.
  • Creating a strong and capable DEI initiative to address the needs of our diverse workforce.

Multicultural Company​

We believe that speaking common languages allows for better collaboration, sharing of culture, and career mobility inside the company. As a company with an “English first” culture and as a child company of one of the world’s foremost Japanese companies, all employees should have an opportunity to become fluent in both English and Japanese.

An opportunity to take Japanese or English lessons must be provided to all employees, regardless of their current ability. An individual may opt out of taking lessons, but the service must be provided.

Respect​

Compensation for work done must be fair. We believe in the idea of paying for performance and reject concepts of stack ranking, payment discrimination based on countries of origin, gender, age or race and blanket compensation reductions.

While we recognise that overtime is required occasionally, we reject that any person should be subject to continuous demands for work in excess of normal working hours. To succeed teams must be adequately staffed, have reasonable workloads, and given clear objectives.

We do not tolerate sexism, racism, ageism, or any other form of discrimination based on sex, gender, ethnic background, religion, diet, political opinion or physical condition. We expect diversity to be proactively pursued in the workplace.

The workplace environment is expected to be open and welcoming to people of all diverse genders (or lack of genders), religions, diets, and abilities. Appropriate facilities and benefits must be offered to accommodate diverse needs and lifestyles.

Mutual Trust​

We expect the leadership to foster a culture of mutual trust. Leadership must actively listen to employee feedback, share the feedback received, show and communicate decisions made based on the feedback, and show honesty, transparency, directness and humility when communicating with the labour force.

We believe that everyone should be provided an opportunity to provide formal feedback to their direct manager, department leadership and company senior leadership.

The company must be data-informed and everyone’s views should matter. Employee opinion and employee satisfaction surveys must be periodically conducted by management. The results of the surveys, properly anonymized, must be shared as raw data within a reasonable time of the closing of the survey.

We reserve the right to conduct our own workplace surveys. Management is expected to recognise the legitimacy of the results of employee lead surveys conducted in good faith.

Sustainability and Environmental Progress​

Aligned with Toyota’s SDGs Initiatives, we expect the leadership to continuously strive to eliminate carbon emissions from our processes and consider environmental impact when making decisions that affect the workplace. We believe our workplace and work style should reflect sustainable ideology.

Efficient use of energy, choice of and use of natural resources, and investment in environmental restoration is critical to ensure our success not only as a company, but as a species.