Believing its employees to be the most important aspect of its corporate foundation, Sony acknowledges that providing its customers around the world with dream-inspiring products, services and lifestyles depends on its ability to maximize the potential of its employees everywhere. Accordingly, Sony must pursue strategies for recruitment, professional development and career planning befitting a leading global corporation. In addition to complying with the employment and labor laws and regulations of the countries and regions in which it operates, Sony recognizes the importance of recruiting and personnel policies that reflect global best practices and of seeking to employ people with a wide range of values and personalities in the appropriate places, irrespective of region, race or gender.
Sony attaches great importance to communication between top management and individual employees. With the aim of conveying management policies and encouraging frontline employees to voice their opinions, management creates opportunities for exchanging opinions with employees on a variety of themes, including technology and management practices.