Family Open House 2024

The ISOWA Family Open House was held on March 23.

For the morning schedule, 700 people were invited, including current ISOWA-Bito and their families and alumni and their families. For the afternoon schedule, more than 100 TASUKE-Bito (employees of partner companies) and their families, and for the first time, people living in the community near ISOWA's headquarters, were invited. It was the largest event in the history of ISOWA.

On the day of the event, everyone could see demonstrations of ISOWA's box-making machine, "Ibis," threading corrugated sheets and enjoy meals from 15 different kitchen cars.

Many people were interested in the newly completed cardboard boxes and the machine we had painstakingly made.

The specially set up food court inside the factory was filled with guests chatting and smiling.

 

Due in part to COVID-19's influence, this was the first time since 2018 that we invited the families of our employees to this event.

 

(https://h-isowa.blogspot.com/2018/12/open-house-2018.html)

 

ISOWA's philosophy is "Working hard for my own and my beloved family's happiness."

 

But if everyone only thinks about their own happiness and the happiness of their beloved family, we cannot function as a team.

We must also respect the happiness of our coworkers and their families.

It is my belief that this caring spirit will lead us to the "best corporate culture in the world."

 

Some of our customers have factories that operate at night. When an urgent problem occurs, our employees go out even in the middle of the night.

Even on weekends, we do maintenance work at our customers' factories. Since the machines are large, our installation work can be done only during major holidays. More than 100 workers head out to customer's factories for that purpose during such holidays. In fact, some employees were unable to attend this family open house due to their work commitments at customer sites.

ISOWA is what it is because of these colleagues.

So, I feel very bad for the families of our employees.

Even if I wanted to express my apologies and appreciation, I rarely have the opportunity to meet the families of our employees.

But these employees work for their families. So, when I see the smiling faces of our employees' family members, who are their treasures, or exchange a few words with them, it fills my heart with contentment.

And they naturally make me smile.

I once again realized that seeing the smiles of my employees and their families is the core of my intrinsic motivation.

 

I will continue to do my best for all of them!