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© ︎kaonavi, Inc

Our
Culture

Individual
autonomy plus
team-based
enthusiasm

kaonavi boasts a flat work relationship backed
by mutual respect between self-directed individuals.

We collaborate sincerely with our workmates,
guided by self-belief and without any guesswork.
We like to challenge questions without right or wrong answers,
and work through trial and error in a quest to help us evolve ourselves.

We even turn hardships into team-based enthusiasm
involving occasional confrontation,
only because we share
a fundamental appreciation
for one another.
This is what the kaonavi culture is.

Values

Our Philosophy

  • 01
    Value Integrity
    All work has integrity to start with.
    No sugarcoating, no untruths.
    That sincere approach builds trust over the long term.
  • 02
    Use your working experience to drive growth
    Raise your value first.
    Take advantage of your workplace as a setting to realize your self-beliefs
    and drive the growth of both yourself and the company.
  • 03
    Go above and beyond the customer perspective
    Our business is fascinating because it has no right or wrong answers.
    Ponder deep enough to identify the real issues that are even undetectable by the customer.
    Keep asking why.
  • 04
    Keep polishing systems
    Systems and processes are not there to be blindly followed; they are a means for driving outcomes.
    Let go of yesterday's achievements whenever necessary to keep updating the system, so it's tuned for every moment.
  • 05
    Win as a team
    Teams are there to help you go beyond boundaries.
    Confront each other for real, embrace enthusiasm, and pave the way for the greatest view otherwise unreachable alone.

Our Philosophy

Systems for enhancing
individual and
organizational performance

Work &
Communication System

At kaonavi, there are two work systems to promote hybrid work.
First it encourages highly-flexible working styles and
properly evaluates employees’ performance.
Second is a communication system centering on offline channels.

Main Programs at
kaonavi

We believe that we can drive the company’s growth by accelerating the cycle of “reciprocal choosing,” which is at the core of our HR strategy and creates the systems and environment in place for making it work.

  • Flexible work
    arrangement

    This program allows our employees to choose their work arrangements to improve productivity. Our employees can initiate various schedules and places they prefer.

    01

    • Hybrid Work

      Our employees can choose their preferred workplace to achieve the best performance in the best environment.

    • Flexible Work Schedule

      To help employees achieve a good balance between work and life, it allows them to flexibly switch between work hours and break time, for example they can be away from office for two hours to have lunch with their family.

    • Flextime without
      core hours

      To help employees work autonomously with a high degree of freedom and achieve a better work-life balance, it allows them to set the beginning and the end of their work hours as well as its length (four hours a day or more).

    • Flextime ± 20 Hours

      It allows employees to adjust their prescribed monthly work hours within ± 20 hours. By improving productivity, they can shorten work hours up to 20 hours a month without getting their salary reduced.

  • Pay for performance

    Since our employees can choose their preferred work arrangements,
    their performance is evaluated based on the outcome. The company provides opportunities
    for growth, and employees give back by helping the company improve its market value.

    02

    • Career Path and Job
      Grade Programs

      The career path program lets employees choose a career path based on their needs, aspirations, etc. and assists their growth through various HR measures. Also, annual salary range are determined based on the seven mission-based job grades defined for each path.

    • Evaluation Program

      The overall evaluation is determined considering the results of the mission, values and competencies. We place importance on the dialogue between the evaluator and the person evaluated. Each person's goals are also set through the dialogue by considering the career path and job grade. Also incentive pay would be provided to employees who complete their mission. Annual salary range is determined by following company values and competencies attainment.

      Mission Set goals based on a job grade, and evaluate the achievement rate Values: Evaluate how well the person follows company values Competencies: Evaluate how many achievements regarding skills to execute mandated tasks and setting portable skills common to all employees.

  • Career Support

    We have programs for giving each person the autonomy to think about one's career.

    03

    • Success sharing sessions

      It is an employee-organized study group where employees share all kinds of knowledge, from stories that are useful in their work to stories about their areas of expertise.

    • In-house training

      It is a mandatory company training program, including logical thinking training, for helping our employees improve a wide range of skills.

    • Side Jobs

      We encourage our employees to have side jobs for personal improvement, enabling them to acquire a wide range of knowledge through jobs outside kaonavi.

    • "Raise Your Hand"
      Program

      We respect each employee's vision for their career. Once every six months, employees can apply to transfer to another department without noticing their superior and discuss it with the human resources.

    • Manebiba

      It is an opportunitiy for managers to interact what they have learned through experience. It lets them to deepen their knowladge through discussions on topics of management and organizational matters.

Communication
Support Programs

Many of our employees choose remote work as their hybrid work option,
so we actively provide opportunities for them to gather and communicate to build
an environment that would facilitate mutual understanding and
help them collaborate casually.

Programs for
Driving Hybrid Work
Square
In this program, employees physically show up to the office to work at least once during each quarter. It helps them improve performance by promoting job-related communication.
Wakka
Wakka is to the clubs formed by kaonavi employees under the concept of casually “building ‘wakka’ (meaning ‘circles’) of personal connections across departments.” Many wakka have been formed based on hobbies and interests.
kaonavi Camp
It is a company-wide offline gathering held once a year. Although many of our employees work remotely, we value offline communication as well.
Family Day
We believe that not only our employees, but also their families are important stakeholders. We regularly organize corporate family events to encourage casual conversations.
Quest

These are hands-on training programs typically involving participants drawn from multiple departments. "Gamification" elements are used to stimulate learning, discussion and interaction.

Cross-Positional
One-on-One

In addition to meetings with
supervisors, one-on-one meetings are held with senior executives from other departments. This enables a search for non-consecutive careers.

Onboarding

We position the time from before an employee joins the company to three months after joining as the Onboarding Period and offer support to help employees be their best selves.

Initiatives
kaonavi vivivi
It is our owned media mainly featuring interviews with our employees for the purpose of highlighting their individualities, which ooze out from their individual and organizational problem-solving processes, and sharing it with the readers.

Visit (Japanese Only)
kaonavi Town Project
“What is it like to work and live by leveraging one’s individuality?” This initiative gives shape to such a question and sense of curiosity as part of our efforts to embody our purpose.

Visit (Japanese Only)
kaonavi Universe
Changing the world for the better through collective efforts of diverse, unique individuals—it is a human capital website where you can learn about the vision and information that kaonavi has.

Visit
kaonavi
note "kaonavi"
The kaonavi official note contains reports and updates on a variety of topics, from brand stories to the day-to-day work of both individual employees and teams, the stories behind product development, user initiatives, and talent management trends.

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Our Office

Shooting Location: WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square

Office Concept

LIQUID

Fluid like liquid
An office as a platform for
diverse individuals
kaonavi has gathered diverse personnel
and would like to advance individual
power with a flexible work style.
Our concept is LIQUID : the office
transforms flexibly to work for everyone.
An environment that creates synergy
with each person’s unique value.