Have you ever thought that those who smoke during working hours at the end of the month almost certainly took more breaks than those who do not have the habit of cigarettes? For this reason, a Japanese company has decided to reward its non-smoking employees with extra paid holidays.
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Have you ever thought that those who smoke during working hours at the end of the month almost certainly took more breaks than those who do not have the habit of cigarettes? For this reason, a Japanese company has decided to reward its own non-smoking employees with the extra paid holidays.
Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala Inc. has decided to give its non-smoking employees six extra days of vacation. This actually did not happen spontaneously, the employees complained that they worked harder than people who regularly allowed themselves "cigarette breaks" by smoking.
Among other things, the Japanese company has its headquarters on the 29th floor of an office block in the Ebisu district of Tokyo. Smokers must then go to the basement level taking a break that lasts on average about 15 minutes at a time.
The complaint had already arrived at the beginning of the year as a message in a special box for suggestions to the company. The CEO of the company, informed of the complaint, decided to implement this strategy by giving non-smoking employees extra paid holidays, essentially giving workers some extra time to compensate for the increased time spent on the job.
Currently about 30 employees out of the total 120 have taken advantage of the extra holidays, an initiative that aims to be useful in another sense as stated Takao Asuka, CEO of Piala Inc:
"I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than punishments or coercions."
And it appears that this has already encouraged 4 additional employees to give up smoking, the company's CEO said.
About 130.000 people die each year in Japan from smoking-related diseases and another 15.000 are deaths related to second-hand smoking. Earlier this year Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said he planned to impose a ban on smoking in public places across the city ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. But reducing tobacco use in Japan it will probably be a difficult undertaking given that the habit of smoking is very widespread in this country.
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However, Japanese companies are stepping up efforts to protect employees from the impact of smoking, including second-hand smoke. For example, Lawson Inc, a 24-hour store company, has completely banned smoking in its headquarters and regional offices since June.
Can the anti-smoking initiatives of companies really make an important contribution to the fight against tobacco addiction?
