Reward of 1 million yen "TOEIC" at least 900 points.

11 days, he Softbank revealed that also started during the month, a system to pay a reward of $ 10,000 to employees who took more than 900 points in the "TOEIC" English Proficiency Test. With the acceleration of overseas development, improve language skills is aimed.

TOEIC is 990-point scale. Paid 300,000 yen in more than 800 points. Over the next three years, to take to get about 17,000 employees of five major groups, increasing to 3,000 the number of employees more than 800 people about 800 points to remain in the status quo is the goal.

In October last year, Softbank announced the acquisition of telecom giant Sprint Nextel U.S. cellular. We also actively promote investment in IT companies in Asia, opportunities to use English in a business that is growing.

System to reward high scorer TOEIC has also introduced, such as Daiwa, Softbank "paid hefty one million yen are rare," she said (PR). That sounds good. It seems with a boost to English learning.


ソフトバンクは１１日、英語能力試験「ＴＯＥＩＣ」で９００点以上を取った社員に１００万円の報奨金を支給する制度を、月内にも始めることを明らかにした。海外展開の加速に伴い、語学力を向上させるのが狙い。
　ＴＯＥＩＣは９９０点満点。８００点以上でも３０万円を支給する。今後３年間で、グループ主要５社の社員約１万７千人に受験してもらい、現状で約８００人にとどまる８００点以上の社員数を３千人まで増やすのが目標だ。
　ソフトバンクは昨年１０月に、米携帯通信大手スプリント・ネクステルの買収を発表。アジアのＩＴ企業への出資も盛んに進めており、業務で英語を使う機会が増えているという。
　ＴＯＥＩＣ高得点者への報奨金制度は大和ハウス工業なども導入しているが、ソフトバンクは「１００万円もの高額支給は珍しい」（広報）と話している。いいですね。英語学習に弾みがつきそうですね。