http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/ A blog about recruitment advertising, media, publishing, HR, work, & technology, among other things Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-30505 George Yeo Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:05:57 +0000 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/#comment-30505 If employees are unhappy with a company's policies, they can just quit their jobs. Just like if you are unhappy with the salary, you can just walk off. This might create a new wave where companies follow suit. Then again, implementing such measures don't come cheap. But at the end of the day, those who do quit will be thankful to their employers. To better health! If employees are unhappy with a company's policies, they can just quit their jobs. Just like if you are unhappy with the salary, you can just walk off. This might create a new wave where companies follow suit. Then again, implementing such measures don't come cheap. But at the end of the day, those who do quit will be thankful to their employers. To better health!

]]> http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Toby Dayton Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:07:28 +0000 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/#comment-4 As a follow-up to this post, I was forwarded the following link to a sample company smoking policy: http://humanresources.about.com/od/policiesandsamples1/a/smoke_policy.htm As a follow-up to this post, I was forwarded the following link to a sample company smoking policy: http://humanresources.about.com/od/policiesandsamples1/a/smoke_policy.htm

]]> http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/comment-page-1/#comment-3 K. Hamm Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:06:17 +0000 http://blogs.jobdig.com/diggings/2006/04/11/corporate-anti-smokling-policies-raise-tough-questions/#comment-3 And it also cuts down on the amount of time people spend away from their work stations. A lot of people don't feel that "going out for a smoke" is really a break and do it a few extra times a day in addition to their scheduled breaks. I asked one of them about it where I work and he said he thought of it in the same way as getting up to get a cup of coffee. But, of course, he was doing this in addition to getting coffee. It takes about 7 minutes to smoke a cigarette. Add talking time and getting a cup of coffee to go with the cigarette to that and it ends up costing the company a lot of lost time and productivity. Hey - does it hurt to have a few people out of the workforce doing it? Maybe not. But if we ALL got up and went out and stood around for, say, 10 minutes extra a couple of times a day.... wouldn't that be fair to us non-smikers? Why should we have to sit and do our jobs while they get to go outside and smoke? Oh... wait... it's a job, isn't it?!?! 10 minutes a day for 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year times the number of smokers... 10 x 5 x 50 = 2500 minutes. Equals a little more than one work week per year (41.6 hours). And it also cuts down on the amount of time people spend away from their work stations. A lot of people don’t feel that “going out for a smoke” is really a break and do it a few extra times a day in addition to their scheduled breaks. I asked one of them about it where I work and he said he thought of it in the same way as getting up to get a cup of coffee. But, of course, he was doing this in addition to getting coffee. It takes about 7 minutes to smoke a cigarette. Add talking time and getting a cup of coffee to go with the cigarette to that and it ends up costing the company a lot of lost time and productivity. Hey – does it hurt to have a few people out of the workforce doing it? Maybe not. But if we ALL got up and went out and stood around for, say, 10 minutes extra a couple of times a day…. wouldn’t that be fair to us non-smikers? Why should we have to sit and do our jobs while they get to go outside and smoke? Oh… wait… it’s a job, isn’t it?!?! 10 minutes a day for 5 days a week for 50 weeks a year times the number of smokers… 10 x 5 x 50 = 2500 minutes. Equals a little more than one work week per year (41.6 hours).

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