Canon India Celebrates International Women’s Day
Canon India considers its employees its biggest asset. Having completed two glorious decades in the country last year, Canon takes pride in celebrating 20 years of employment of some of its employees, followed by other long service awards, including 15, 10 and 5 years.
These long tenures of service of Canon employees has been possible with the constant encouragement and motivation the employees receive at their workplace. Along with several other employee-friendly initiatives, Canon India makes dedicated efforts to ensure gender equality within the organization and considers its women employees, ‘symbols of empowerment’. This women’s day, Canon India, acknowledged the strong and spirited women, with a digital campaign, titled ‘#MoreStrengthToHer’.
The campaign is an endeavor by the organization’s senior leaders to salute the spirit of women and encourage fair and equal practices, across the world. These leaders, comprised of Kazutada Kobayashi, president and CEO, along with VPs, including Ms. Shikha Rai, VP HR, Gary Lee, VP and CFO, K. Bhaskhar, VP, Business Imaging Solutions and Eddie Udagawa, VP, Consumer Imaging and Information Center.
The leaders shared their learnings and wisdom derived from their experiences, to not only encourage and uplift the spirit of their own employees but for women at large. The leaders are also a part of a special women empowerment committee called WE@Canon, which is constantly focused towards empowering the women employees across Canon India.
