The Japanese company came up with a new tricky move - employees who do not smoke are given 6 additional days of vacation. On the one hand, you might think that smoke breaks take a little time during the working day. Only by the end of the working year is a considerable amount of time going. It turns out that non-smokers spend more time on work than those who indulge in cigarettes.
What to do with it?
One company in Japan traced an unpleasant pattern that smoking many employees distracts from work. The management of Piala Inc. a decision was made to change the paid vacation policy and conduct an experiment to find out if this worked or not. They began to provide non-smokers with additional days off each year to compensate for the time that smokers spend on breaks. And according to the results of research, this time is at least 15 minutes of working time daily.
What does the management say?
The company managers decided that the problem can be prevented without fines and penalties. It is necessary to create such conditions that employees themselves want to give up cigarettes. The purpose of the amended policy is to encourage employees to quit smoking in anticipation of promotion, and not out of fear of being fined. According to statistics, the Japanese smoke a lot. According to the World Health Organization, Japanese men smoke three times more often than women. Also, about 130 thousand people die every year in Japan from diseases related to smoking. And many suffer because they are passive smokers. The government is not fully struggling with this, so companies and organizations have to resolve issues locally.
How are things in Japan?
The Tokyo governor spoke of plans to ban cigarettes in public places throughout the city during the 2020 Olympics. However, in Japan it is not easy to carry out such actions, it is more difficult than in other countries. Lobbyists put pressure on politicians and even the ban on smoking in restaurants was overthrown. But the measures taken by Piala Inc. seem to work, as four of the 42 non-smoking employees of the company have already abandoned this habit.
Would such measures affect Russian citizens?
Russian authorities are also actively fighting smokers. Their percentage is slowly but surely decreasing. Perhaps large companies should also experiment with various bonuses for non-smokers.