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Company gave non-smokers six extra days off to make up for co-workers' smoke breaks
Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:55 pm
Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:55 pm
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Good idea, IMO. Seems like cigarette smokers always take plenty of extra breaks that non smokers never do.
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A Japanese company has started giving its non-smoking employees extra paid leave to compensate them for their co-workers’ cigarette breaks, according to The Telegraph.
The Telegraph on Monday reported that Tokyo’s Piala Inc. now gives its non-smoking staff six extra days of paid holidays annually after they complained about the firm’s smoking policy.
Piala then introduced the non-smokers’ perk last month, and the marketing firm’s employees have quickly embraced the change.
“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,” Piala spokesman Hirotaka Matushima said.
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I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion,” Piala CEO Takao Asuka told Kyodo News.
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Matsushima said that the new policy inspired four people to give up smoking, adding that he is a non-smoker who has used the additional paid holidays for a family trip.
Good idea, IMO. Seems like cigarette smokers always take plenty of extra breaks that non smokers never do.
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Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:56 pm to East Coast Band
I would love it if the company I worked for did this.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:56 pm to East Coast Band
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Good idea, IMO. Seems like cigarette smokers always take plenty of extra breaks that non smokers never do.
I want 3 days off for people that shite at work. I go home on my lunch break.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:57 pm to East Coast Band
Capital idea.
Capital, I say!
Capital, I say!
Posted on 11/1/17 at 9:57 pm to East Coast Band
That really is a smart solution and great incentive to stop smoking
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:00 pm to East Coast Band
Why can’t people just wait until their lunch break to grab a smoke. Personally I would not want anyone I worked with to know I was a smoker.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:01 pm to ellishughtiger
I wouldn't hire a smoker, they're the least productive people I've ever worked with.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:03 pm to East Coast Band
Six additional days?
How many damn vacation days do they get? I thought the Japanese were insanely hard workers.
How many damn vacation days do they get? I thought the Japanese were insanely hard workers.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:11 pm to eScott
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I wouldn't hire a smoker, they're the least productive people I've ever worked with.
The only employee I have that smokes, is the the most reliable, hard worker that I have. Couldn't care less if she has a few smoke breaks each day.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:17 pm to jbgleason
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How many damn vacation days do they get?
It's all based upon Merit. Pretty Basic really.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:22 pm to Mouth
I drive by a Toyota plant at least once a week. Toyota does not allow smoking on the property. There are always a bunch cars parked on the road outside the gate with workers hanging out smoking.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:22 pm to jbgleason
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How many damn vacation days do they get? I thought the Japanese were insanely hard workers.
You’re confusing them with Vietnamese and Chinese factory workers
Posted on 11/1/17 at 10:26 pm to ellishughtiger
I'm moving to Japan.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:49 pm to jdeval1
Your bad
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:51 pm to East Coast Band
damn right, as an ex smoker i can tell you, even without trying to lollygag it takes a good 20 minutes from the time you stop work for a cigarette break to actually being back working again and most smokers "need" at least one smoke break an hour if they can get away with it.
when i quit smoking it was literally like working nearly 3 hours more a day when i no longer had those smoke breaks.
at least now its almost universal no smoking anywhere so there is no place they can go to smoke so they cant take smoke breaks. now you dont have to do others work while they are out smoking
when i quit smoking it was literally like working nearly 3 hours more a day when i no longer had those smoke breaks.
at least now its almost universal no smoking anywhere so there is no place they can go to smoke so they cant take smoke breaks. now you dont have to do others work while they are out smoking
This post was edited on 11/1/17 at 11:53 pm
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:54 pm to East Coast Band
Boom
I love it
I love it
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:54 pm to East Coast Band
Maybe if we just let the smokers smoke at their desks like the civilized country we used to be this wouldn’t be a problem.
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:54 pm to East Coast Band
I just smoked a cigarette. Loved every minute of it
Posted on 11/1/17 at 11:57 pm to East Coast Band
Amen! Back when I was younger and worked in a restaurant, employees would go in the back and smoke a cigarette and get on their phones without violation. But if I went back there and got on my phone without a cigarette, I would get in trouble for being on my phone. It was the dumbest shite and used to infuriate me.
I love this idea.
I love this idea.
Posted on 11/2/17 at 12:35 am to keakar
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damn right, as an ex smoker i can tell you, even without trying to lollygag it takes a good 20 minutes from the time you stop work for a cigarette break to actually being back working again and most smokers "need" at least one smoke break an hour if they can get away with it.
when i quit smoking it was literally like working nearly 3 hours more a day when i no longer had those smoke breaks.
So you were missing a third of the day to go smoke? Damn.
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