non smokers extra vacation days

Smokers take regular smoke breaks, even at work. But did you know just how long these breaks take? How much of a smoker’s working hours are spent on these breaks?

Halo Cigs recently conducted a survey to find out just how much time we’re talking about here. The results are pretty surprising!

Essentially, the average smoker will use up approximately six whole days spend taking these seemingly small smoke breaks during their working hours.

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This number goes up even further in some industries, and the figure can hit a whopping 20 days – essentially, 40 monthly hours, or an entire work week’s worth of smoke breaks per month.

This is especially true in fields such as finance, technology, and retail. Naturally, those who don’t smoke aren’t too pleased with these results.

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Companies around the world have begun to take these results into account, making new rules and policies in order to improve fairness and workplace satisfaction.

In Japan, a marketing company known as Piala Inc. has made a significant move towards this by offering all of its non-smoking staff members an additional six vacation days.

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Some smokers might find that this is unfair, or may think it impossible that they truly use up that much time in smoke breaks. However, the math on this matter is quite sound.

The average smoker takes a total 20 minutes’ worth of smoke breaks per work day.

In industries such as entertainment, education, and healthcare, this time can increase above an hour.

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The survey by Halo Cigs revealed that 25.2% of non-smokers believe that the existence of smoke breaks is quite unfair.

Meanwhile, a whopping 81.2% of smokers feel that the allowance for smoke breaks is fair.

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These statistics go on to show even more lack of satisfaction from those who do not smoke.

More than 80% of non-smokers surveyed feel that they should receive at least one additional vacation day. Over 50% think they should receive at least three additional vacation days.

Smokers, conversely, don’t agree, and more than 38% of them don’t think any non-smokers should receive additional vacation days – though a few do believe their non-smoking colleagues deserve the compensation.

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According to a spokesperson with Piala Inc., staff who don’t smoke have used the suggestion box in the company to express their disheartenment with those who take smoke breaks.

These complaints were lodged earlier in the year and stated that those who took these breaks were actually causing problems to them.

The company’s CEO reviewed these complaints and agreed with them, thus deciding that non-smoking employees would receive these six extra days off.

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This begs the question – will these extra vacation days encourage smokers to make efforts to quit smoking?

The Halo Cigs survey says they’d need more than just that, with results suggesting an average of 11 or 12 vacation days would be the incentive they needed to drop the habit.

Though legal workers put the figure at 15 days, retail workers said 17 days, and those in education said they’d need a whopping 30 days.

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What are your thoughts on this matter? Do you think non-smokers should receive extra vacation days? If you smoke, how many vacation days would persuade you to kick the habit?

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