• Japanese marketing firm Piala is giving non-smoking employees an additional 6 days of paid leave a year!
• Piala decided to ‘offer a benefit’ to non-smokers, who had complained that smoking employees took approx 15 minutes for each cigarette break, and therefore worked less.
• Piala spokesman Hirotaka Matsushima told CNN Money that smoke breaks accounted for 40 minutes of time away from desks.
• Since implementation in September, 4 out of Piala’s 42 smokers have quit.
• One in five adults smoke in Japan, with smoking rooms common in public and office spaces, but this is expected to change by the 2020 Olympics.

Read more:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/01/news/japan-smoke-employees-vacation-benefit/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/world/asia/japan-smokers-vacation.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/11/02/not-smoking-gets-japanese-workers-extra-week-vacation/824638001/

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