Well, fair’s fair after all…
Recently, the Japanese company Tokyo’s Piala Inc. announced that they were giving their non-smoking employees extra paid leave to compensate for the fact that their co-workers’ get cigarette breaks. And that extra they gave the non-smokers totaled six extra days of paid holidays annually.
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It’s like they are getting paid to be healthy!
Apparently, one of the non-smoking staff put a message in the company’s suggestion box a year ago and when the CEO saw the comment, he agreed.
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Piala spokesman, Hirotaka Matushima, reported that fewer than 30 of the company’s 120 employees have taken days off since Piala implemented the new system.
“‘I hope to encourage employees to quit smoking through incentives rather than penalties or coercion,’ Piala CEO Takao Asuka told Kyodo News.”1
And it’s working already: inspired by the new policy, four people have given up smoking (according to the World Health Organization about 21.7 percent of Japanese adults smoke).
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