Last Updated on 2021-06-10 , 5:36 pm
You don’t smoke, but your office buddies do. So it’s kinda annoying to see them go for their smoke breaks a couple (okay, many couples) of times in a day.
And you just KNOW there’s some gossip you’re missing out on simply by sitting at your desk instead of polluting your lungs.
Well, a company in Japan has taken extra steps to promote its staff who don’t go for cigarette breaks. In return of not smoking, they’d be getting an extra of not one, not two, but SIX DAYS of paid leave!
Here’s the scoop you have to know.
About the Company and Its Initiative
A marketing company in Japan by the name of Piala Inc took steps to compensate its non-smoking workers, as they had complained that they, well, do more work than their smoking co-workers.
The company’s spokesman, Hirotaka Matsushima told the press that there had been a note in their suggestion box earlier in 2017 saying that the smoking breaks were starting up problems in the office.
Wah lau, no need to send email all. Just send an anonymous note in a suggestion box and it gets the attention it needs!
Anyway, Piala Inc’s CEO, Takao Asuka chose to give the non-smoking workers time off to compensate for their non-smoking ways.
Here’s an extra fact – there might have been some truth in the complaint, as staff who wanted to go for a cigarette break would have to head over to the 29 floor, which is very far from where their office is. Thanks to the distance plus smoking time, it’d take some 15 minutes to complete a smoke break.
This, we completely understand. The smoking corner in Goody Feed office is at level one while our office is at level nine. A lot of minutes were spent on…waiting for the lift.
Takao Asuka really does hope that the extra leave days will be a very attractive deal for staff, so much so that some of them quit smoking. Even if it is just for office hours only at most, your lungs do get a minor break.
The best break is to stop altogether, and it’s always about taking baby steps anyway!
Other Anti-Smoking Moves Around Japan
It isn’t just this particular company that’s making a move to get its workers to stop smoking too. The entire country of Japan has been on an anti-smoking war of sorts, with more tightened anti-smoking rules up and about in the past couple of months.
Why, just last July ah, the governor of the capital city of Japan, Tokyo’s Yuriko Koik,e started laying out plans to have smoking bans in its public vicinities, which is seen as a move to keep the city smoke-free for the upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics.
It might be a tough call to administer, as there are a couple of politicians on board who are pro-smoking. Japan Tobacco, on top of that, is owned by the government by a portion of one-third. The tobacco giant even paid Tokyo total dividends of US$700 million two years ago.
Hmm… If we were to work in a company with extra free leave for not smoking, I’d happily throw my cigarettes away. Can even save money leh in the process!
Watch this video to the end to learn new ways to quit smoking:
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