Have you ever noticed this before: if you work with smokers, they take breaks constantly.
I’ve worked with some people who took at least one cigarette break per hour and sometimes even more.
That time really adds up.
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A company in Japan has taken notice and decided to give non-smokers an extra six days of vacation per year to make up for the time that smokers take on breaks.
Piala Inc. is a marketing firm in Tokyo, and they decided to take this step after non-smokers at the company complained about working more than people at the business who take time each day to smoke.
A spokesperson for the company said,
“One of our non-smoking staff put a message in the company suggestion box earlier in the year saying that smoking breaks were causing problems.
Our CEO saw the comment and agreed, so we are giving non-smokers some extra time off to compensate.”
The company is based on the 29th floor of a building so you can imagine how much time was spent by smokers venturing all the way downstairs, taking a leisurely cigarette break, and then coming back up 29 flights.
Like I said, it adds up.
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Takao Asuka, the CEO of the company, said,
“I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion.”
I have to say… this is actually pretty interesting. It would motivate me to curb my smoking… at least at work.
What do you think about this? Fair? Unfair? Unnecessary?
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