Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
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Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#2Based on what we know about staying seated for hours a day, it would be more beneficial to allow non-smokers stand up and walk around breaks every hour rather than 6 days off.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#3This assumes people are working just because they aren't on a smoke break. If you work on a production line in a factory, it's fairly easy to see the output level of your work. If you work in an office, there is not a simple measure. The non-smoking worker could just as easily spend the same time chatting it up around the water cooler.
Physical presence does not equal working time. I wish more managers understood that motivated workers will work and non-motivated workers will always find the path of least resistance. Remote or in-office doesn't matter that much.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#4This assumes people are working just because they aren't on a smoke break. If you work on a production line in a factory, it's fairly easy to see the output level of your work. If you work in an office, there is not a simple measure. The non-smoking worker could just as easily spend the same time chatting it up around the water cooler. Physical presence does not equal working time. I wish more managers understood tha…
No, I think it says that people feel they're working harder than smokers. So far as I can tell, there was no attempt to say they actually do work harder.
The other half of this is that it incentivizes smokers to quit.
This is about motivating non-smokers who are feeling de-motivated. And about helping people drop an unhealthy habit.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#5Does the company have a culture of encouraging people to actually take those holidays? Based on my experience in Japan, nobody actually uses their holiday time, to avoid losing face at work. The only holidays people actually take are the public holidays. Luckily, they have a good number of them, including a whole week at the beginning of May.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#6Based on what we know about staying seated for hours a day, it would be more beneficial to allow non-smokers stand up and walk around breaks every hour rather than 6 days off.
Is it? That may be true, but I read about new (to me) contradictory research in this area a lot. I feel the science should be more settled before we start designing specific policy proposals.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#7Based on what we know about staying seated for hours a day, it would be more beneficial to allow non-smokers stand up and walk around breaks every hour rather than 6 days off.
Is it? That may be true, but I read about new (to me) contradictory research in this area a lot. I feel the science should be more settled before we start designing specific policy proposals.
Research that contradicts benefits of frequent physical activity for office workers? Paint me surprised. Can you share some links?
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#8My grandfather started smoking (back in the 1920s?) because as a dock worker he was not allowed to take breaks but was also not allowed to smoke on the ship.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? That may be true, but I read about new (to me) contradictory research in this area a lot. I feel the science should be more settled before we start designing specific policy proposals.
Research that contradicts benefits of frequent physical activity for office workers? Paint me surprised. Can you share some links?
I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the effects of sitting were not, they believe, offset by physical activity. I can't remember the source, but I'm sure there's stuff out there in Google.
Re: Company gives non-smokers six days holiday to compensate for cigarette breaks
#10Or instead of smoking go for a walk/toilet/chat and claim those 6 days like the rest of non-smokers. I see non-smokers in my company doing fuck all all day long...