Chihiro Watanabe

Outsourcing Business Dept. Service Business Div.
Healthcare & Service Business Unit

"How can we create an environment where many people can come together and naturally collaborate? – That is the question I continue to ask myself throughout my involvement in the operation of the new Head Office building. We are working together with our affiliate company Aim Services to provide cafeteria management and refreshment services on office floors, but our ultimate goal goes beyond that – it is to support the new workstyle of the new Head Office.
Aim Services has extensive know-how that includes catering services at companies and hospitals, operation and management of training facilities, and stadium food services. My goal is to make full use of such knowledge, verify what works and what doesn’t through repeated trial and error, and create better services that match this next-generation workstyle. I myself would like to take advantage of the new Head Office functions and promote the involvement of people both inside and outside the company to generate new ideas.

Takeshi Maruyama

First Olefins Dept. Olefins & Chlor-Alkali Div.
Basic Materials Business Unit

My goal is to make full use of the functions of the new Head Office to allow me to go out and be on the front line at business sites more than ever before. I look after chemical trading, and communication between team members is of utmost importance as the situation changes rapidly from day to day. Now our team members are able to interact in real time through a variety of means without needing to be in the same place. I expect that the new Head Office will further accelerate these changes in our workstyle. Our job is to listen to the voices of domestic and foreign partners on the front line of business, and work to solve industry issues from all perspectives and means. In order to do so, we need a variety of professionals both inside and outside the company. At the new Head Office, I want to utilize CAMP as a place to interact with members and partners from other departments. I hope we can come together to create new solutions that only Mitsui can.

Mariko Osabe

Workplace Experience Dept.
Human Resources & General Affairs Div.

In conjunction with the move to the new Head Office, Mitsui has launched the Work-X Project, which is an employee-driven project that considers new ways of working. I am one of the members. When I’m working, I constantly ask myself, "What kind of people do I want to work with?"
This question was born out of the realization that, with the help of so many people both inside and outside the company I have had so much experience that would not have been achievable alone. Now, I'm working with the goal of creating a workplace where new values and businesses are constantly born, keeping in mind the additional question of, "What kind of company do I want to work with?" My aim is to collaborate with many people and use our imagination to create new ways of working, including addressing things like renewal of internal regulations and making our company completely paperless.