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Consolidated data

Governance data

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 As of March 2021

Directors

 12 12 12 12 12 13

Outside Directors
(independent outside Directors)

 3(3) 4(4) 4(4) 4(4) 5(4) 5(5)
Ratio of independent outside Directors (%) 25.0 33.3 33.3 33.3 33.3 38.5
Female Directors 1
 2 2 2 2 3
Ratio of female Directors (%) 8.3 16.7 16.7 16.7 16.7 23.1
Board of Director meeting
attendance rate (%)		 95.4 96.9 98.0 96.9 95.6* **
Attendance rate of independent
outside Directors at Board of
Director meetings (%)		 96.1 96.3 98.5 93.8 100.0 **
  • *　Attendance rate was 97.8% excluding times when Tim Andree was absent due to illness.
  • ** Not calculated as 2021 is in progress.

Social data

Number of employees*

  December
2016		 December
2017		 December
2018		 December
2019		 December
2020

Total

 55,843 60,064 62,608 66,400 64,533
  • * Excludes delegated Executive Officers.

Employees and Managers 1

As of December 2020

  Total Male Female Female
Component(%)

Employees

 64,533 33,822 30,711 47.6
  Dentsu Japan Network 20,325 13,094 7,231 35.6
  Dentsu International 44,208 20,728 23,480 53.1
Managers 2 4,699 4,037 662 14.1
  Dentsu Japan Network 4,197 3,709 488 11.6
  Dentsu International 502 328 174 34.7
  • 1. Dentsu Japan Network includes Dentsu Group Inc. employee figures.
  • 2. Calculated as Managers within Dentsu Japan Network and Officer class within Dentsu International.

Community activities

As of December 2020

  Total Dentsu Japan
Network		 Dentsu
International

Donations (yen)

 979,248,866 43,951,110 935,297,756*
Participants in volunteer activities 5,224 355 4,869
Hours spent participating in
volunteer activities		 54,701 12,394 42,307
  • * Exchange rate: £1=¥140.89

Environmental performance data

  2017 2018 2019 2020

CO2 emissions (tons)

 119,347 113,791
 121,156
 50,021
  Dentsu Japan Network 45,434 43,746 56,655 32,280
  Dentsu International 73,914 70,045 64,501 17,741

CO2 emission intensity (tons per FTE)

 2.11 1.88 1.89 0.78

Scope 1 (tons)

 5,432 4,981 4,888 3,540
  Dentsu Japan Network 869 426 344 355
  Dentsu International 4,563 4,555 4,544 3,185

Scope 2 (market-based, tons)

 48,511 39,130 29,074 23,415
  Dentsu Japan Network 28,545 26,513 24,202 20,872
  Dentsu International 19,966 12,617 4,872 2,543

Scope 3 (tons)

 65,404 69,679 87,194 23,066
  1. Purchased goods and services 2,403 2,087 1,481 645
  Dentsu Japan Network 1,575 1,311 1,231 531
  Dentsu International 828 776 251 114
  5. Waste generated in operations 1,114 1,627 1,246 1,097
  Dentsu Japan Network 100 152 424 596
  Dentsu International 1,014 1,475 822 502
  6. Business travel 59,047 62,253 79,417 16,370
  Dentsu Japan Network 11,504 11,631 25,406 4,973
  Dentsu International 47,543 50,622 54,012 11,397
  7. Employee commuting 2,841 3,713 5,049 4,954
  Dentsu Japan Network 2,841 3,713 5,049 4,954

Amount of waste (kg)

 6,665,499 7,884,635 6,456,545 5,270,342
  Dentsu Japan Network* 4,329,249 3,747,229 3,246,545 2,706,342
  Dentsu International 2,336,250 4,137,406 3,210,000 2,564,000
Waste recycling rate (Dentsu Inc. only) 91.2% 88.1% 85.7% 86.2%

Water consumption (m³)

 458,786 806,030 776,321 497,525
  Dentsu Japan Network 276,347 273,394 315,808 213,321
  Dentsu International 182,439 532,636 460,513 284,204
  • * The figures for Dentsu Japan Network include its own buildings (Ginza Building, Fukuoka Building, Kousan 1 Building, Kousan 3 Building, and Sapporo Building).

Scope and Method of Calculation

  • Excluding some Dentsu Group companies
  • For CO2 emissions, Categories 1, 5, 6, and 7 were calculated for Scope 3
  • The volume of water resources used is the sum of municipal water and gray water at the Tokyo Head Office, and the municipal water used at the Kansai Branch Office and Chubu Branch Office
  • Based on the calculation standards of WRI (World Resources Institute) GHG Protocol
  • The volume of waste generated (in kg) is the sum of general waste and industrial waste (including waste oil, waste plastic)
  • For improved accuracy, the values of the previous fiscal years have been revised

Third-party assurance

The rate of women in leadership, the amount of donations, the number of participants in volunteer activities, the hours spent participating in volunteer activities, and CO2 emissions (greenhouse gas emissions) from the Dentsu Group are verified, and certification is provided (left), by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance Ltd (LRQA).

Total electricity consumption, amount of renewable
energy use, and renewable energy usage rate*

2020 Total electricity
consumption (kWh)		 Amount of renewable
energy use (kWh)		 Renewable energy
usage rate

Dentsu Group
(total)

 86,675,340 46,842,835 54.0%
  • * Calculation based on GHG protocol

Dentsu Inc.

Personnel data

Number of employees

  December 2016 December 2017 December 2018 December 2019 December 2020

Total

 6,799 6,927 6,921 7,071 6,907

New graduates hired

  April 2017 April 2018 April 2019 April 2020 April 2021

Total

 145 145 141 122 116
Male 82 84 73 66 63
Female 63 61 68 56 53
Female component (%) 43.4 42.0 48.2 45.9 45.7

Career recruitment
(by job position, full-year, permanent employee assignment)

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 32 99 95 68 24
Male 27 76 74 50 18
Female 5 23 21 18 6
Female component (%) 15.6 23.2 22.1 26.5 25.0

Employee composition1

  As of December 2020
  Male Female Total Ratio (%)

Executive Officers, others2

 29 2 31 0.4
Managers 1,543 163 1,706 24.7
Non-managers 2,317 1,071 3,388 49.1
Contract employees 310 388 698 10.1
Clerical staff 0 486 486 7.0
Partners / senior staff 216 49 265 3.8
Part-timers, others3 31 34 65 0.9
Seconded from other entities 165 103 268 3.9
Total 4,611 2,296 6,907 100.0
  • 1 Employees on temporary assignments are excluded.
  • 2 Includes Senior Corporate Advisors, Special Advisors, and Executive Officers (excluding Directors and Corporate Auditors).
  • 3 Indicates permanent part-timers, nonpermanent part-timers, and employees of overseas branches.

Average age of employees*

Total 41.2

Male

 43.2
Female 37.1
  • * Full-time employees only

Average number of consecutive years served*

Total 14.2

Male

 16.6
Female 9.2
  • * Full-time employees only

Number of employees by age bracket*

Age Number of people Ratio (%)
Under 30 years of age 1,131 16.4
30–39 years of age 2,159 31.3
40–49 years of age 1,856 26.9
50–59 years of age 1,459 21.1
Over 60 years of age 302 4.4
Total 6,907 100.0
  • * Includes staff from other companies assigned to the Dentsu Group; excludes staff from the Dentsu Group dispatched to other companies.

Employee engagement survey

Survey of the company and work (%)

  January 2016 January 2017 January 2018 January 2019 January 2020

Q1. Have you gained experience, knowledge and skills made possible only by working at Dentsu?*

 94.4 93.2 92.3 92.9 63.9
Q2. Are you proud to work at Dentsu? 86.8 80.2 78.4 80.0 69.6
Q3. Going forward, do you want to continue working at Dentsu? 75.6 73.5 72.1 72.6 73.9
  • * “Skills” was added to the question text in 2020.

Work–life balance

Average number of paid vacation days taken

  Average days used Paid holidays Usage rate (%)
Male 9.21 20 46.1
Female 9.46 20 47.3

Total

 9.29 20 46.5

Number of employees utilizing childcare leave, usage rate, ratio of employees who return to work

  Number of users Number of eligible employees Usage rate (%) Ratio of employees who return to work (%)
Male 150 195 76.9 100
Female 55 55 100.0 100

Total hours worked per year*

  2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 2,251 2,265 2,252 2,187 2,166 2,032 1,952 1,903 1,838
  • * In accordance with working time management changes, since FY2017, the figures for actual time worked have been adopted to calculate total time worked. Management staff are included in these figures.

Leveraging diverse human resources

Employment rate of people with disabilities (%)*

  June 2017 June 2018 June 2019 June 2020 June 2021

Total

 2.07 2.14 2.35 2.38 2.73
  • * Total of four companies under the special subsidiary system (Dentsu Group Inc., Dentsu Solari Inc., Dentsu Inc., and Dentsu Works Inc.), until 2019, three companies combined (Dentsu Inc., Dentsu Solari Inc., and Dentsu Works Inc.)

Number of post-retirement rehires

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 46 51 58 67 96
Male 35 41 53 55 79
Female 11 10 5 12 17

Dentsu Japan Network

Internal reporting: Compliance Line reports (cases)

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 7 9 24 17 10

Number of internal reported complaints (cases)

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 31 85 93 102 54

Dentsu International

Internal reporting: number of “Speak Up!” incident reports (cases)

  2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Total

 22 12 44 35 43

Average age of employees

As of December 2020

Total 34

Average number of consecutive years served

As of December 2020

Total 4

Employees by age (%)*

As of December 2020

Under 30 years of age 35.9
30–39 years of age 39.8
40–49 years of age 17.1
50–59 years of age 6.2
Over 60 years of age 1.1
  • * Excludes certain employees.

Ratio of employees by years of service (%)

As of December 2020

Less than one year 21.3
One to three years 35.1
Three to five years 18.0
Five or more years 25.6
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