Make an enriching lifestyle of working people "as a mission, prepare side dishes to eat at 100 yen in offices. I asked Mr. Sawaki, the president, about the reasons for contributing to the company's employee success, and about his own experiences that became the circumstances of making mornings.

You can eat delicatessen called "Wow!" In the office

Prepared meal, petit company food, side dish grilled office food. "Okoman" introduced this time is familiar with various names. Set up a refrigerator in the office that includes a dish of vacuum packing, such as hamburger steak, dried radish, simmered dish. Employees are able to eat delicatessens if they pay 100-200 yen per piece.

Okan Co., Ltd. CEO CEO Kei Sawaki(Sawaki Keita)

Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1985, graduated from Chuo University. Participating in franchise support and management consulting Participated in a start-up in the EdTech area as a new member of a listed company, a new business development, a venture company, after a game producer and business manager. After that, in December 2012 he founded Okan Co., Ltd. as an incumbent. "Enrich the lifestyle of working people" as mission, conveniently managed food service "Office Okan" operated from March 2014.

Also commitment to the delicatessen itself. There are about 1500 kinds of food additives in Japan, but there are about 30 types of office additives. We narrow down only what we really need, and use domestic ingredients as much as possible, we are making healthy and safe prepared foods.

The refrigerator installed in the office always contains about 20 types of prepared dishes, and choosing the seasonal ingredients will replace about 1/3 of the prepared food every month. Although settlement can be paid by cash, payment via smartphone application is also possible.

Even if we say "How delicious it is", it seems that it is not expected at first as to whether there is a retort feeling or a fish will be filled because it is a pack 's side dish. But our delicatessen items are commodities. I call it "Wow!" Within the company, but it is delicious to customers anyway! I am surprised that there are many things. I am particular about taste as much as I can compete. After all, food is not tasty and you can not keep using it. (Sawaki-san, hereinafter the same)

The refrigerator of the office okani always contains about 20 types of prepared foods.

As the name "Office Okan" is, there are many offices and other workplaces where refrigerators are installed. Besides, there seems to be things that the monk is eating at commercial facilities, backyards of karaoke, construction sites, hospitals, clinics, temples, so it seems to be putting anywhere if there is someone working. From a scale of less than 10 people to a few of the thousands of listing desires, the industry also varies. It is hard to get down to the upper level of a skyscraper so it seems that many people say you can finish eating with your side dish.

Introducing an office okani as a step in working way reform

In addition to getting 100 yen from those who eat side dishes, the office okan gets service / system usage fee from the company. It seems that plans are prepared according to the number of employees, frequency of use, budget, etc. Of course, I think that there are aspects of welfare benefits, but what is the reason why companies introduce office okon?

It is so-called "employee success". Many customers are trying to increase corporate attractiveness from the aspect of welfare benefits such as revitalizing communication, improving the return rate from leave, improving health checkups, etc., to reduce the turnover rate and strengthen employment.

The effective job offer ratio in July 2017 is about 1.5 times. Every industry and company seems to be having trouble collecting and recruiting. The thing that becomes necessary there is to make environment that is easy to work, to enhance charm rather than competition.

In recent years, working way reforms and health management are often talked about, but there are not many cases where you can tackle hurdles to a low level, and many companies are going to try using office kettles as the first step.

A company that introduced the office okan actually got to eat ready-to-eat deliciously, he took home with dinner, he eats at a rest room, so he got to communicate with his colleagues, etc. There are many companies that actually feel the effect.

With this, I can not keep working even if I enjoy working

Okanu's mission "enrich the lifestyle of working people".

Okanu mission and action guidelines. It's a word like "Okan".

Although there was also a story saying that the reason for introducing office okanen is because of employee success, it is difficult to say what to do with employee success. Even if the job itself is outstanding, it can not be helped if you are sacrificing private, and the way you work and the balance vary from person to person. Child care and nursing care are also becoming social problems.

It seems that the reason why you came to tackle such social issues was based on Ms. Sawaki's experience.

I worked as a consulting company with a new graduate. It was very rewarding and fun, but consulting is a very hard work. I also did not eat properly at that time, and the result of medical examination was also terrible. I felt it was impossible to continue working even if it was fun as it was. So I decided to create a system that can balance working and health.

It is a time when the world is looking at ways of working, such as working, reform and health management. Since I was able to ride on macro trends, I heard that there were a lot of inquiries about office okon from the beginning.

Initially I was targeting such companies, thinking that introductions such as venture businesses and IT companies are frequent in efforts like office okane. However, when I opened the lid, there are also a variety of industries, and I am using it for long-established companies as well. I realized that various companies want to do something for their employees.

By the way, in recent years health management and working style has been drawing attention, and although it seems that it seems better to think about the health of employees, it does not mean that the achievement will soon be raised. Is there any incentive not only for office okanes but also for companies to implement policies for employee success?

Certainly, there is no indicator directly related to sales or profit in health management, which weakens the motivation. One of the goals is to make such indicators in the future as well.

Photographs of introducing companies are posted on the office in the office

Practice your own way of working according to your lifestyle

Make a mission "Enrich the lifestyle of working people". However, unless the lifestyle of those who work with us is rich, the physician's insomnia. There is also such a thing, the member who works as a chef has a lot of impression that there are slightly different attributes from other venture companies.

First of all, there are many women. As a venture business, it is likely that girls work hard and tackle cutting-edge things often, so the percentage of men is often high, but it seems that about 7 to 80 percent of male is a woman.

The feeling of empathy for the mission is very important when you make a mistake, and I am conscious of it when I hire. As a result, many women change their life stages due to marriage, childbirth, social reinstatement and so on.

It seems that there are many people with children, so working out at the nursery school and working out at home work because children are sick, very flexible way of working.

For example, how children work during the summer vacation period is unique. Since I usually go to school, I can not work either on weekdays when I am able to work or when my child is on summer vacation. So she seems to work flexiblely with telecommuting and vacation.

Also, we will ask you how to work and what kind of employees areProactively outgoingI have an impression.

I am proud that we are doing pointed things. I think that it would be good to be a case of other companies as well as want people to be interested by being outgoing. It will lead to the achievement of the mission of accumulating and enriching the lifestyle of working human beings.

Become a hub of employee success

In order to enrich the lifestyle of working people, we are trying to achieve employee success from the side dish. What kind of deployment are you thinking in the future?

"Okanokan" is only one means. In order to solve the health problems of working people, it may be cross-selling or add-ons and I am planning the next challenge.

When listening to business that putting side dishes in the office, it seems that there is no competitive advantage at first glance. But actually it is hard to make a healthy prepared dish, and it is hard to build a supply chain. It is said that inventory information and other data collection are progressing more and more. Also, there are not so many jobs actually going to your office and setting up things. There seems to be plenty of superiority surprisingly.

The key to the future development is to "become a hub of employee success". In addition to self-confidence in working methods, family health is also involved. With the view to cooperating with other players, I also wanted to add services such as childcare and nursing care that can be solved, as well as thinking about physical examination and links.

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