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  • Non-smokers’ perks: Japanese firm gives six extra days leave to compensate for cigarette breaks

    11/01/2017 8:17:50 AM PDT · by Simon Green · 17 replies
    Hindustan Times ^ | 11/01/17 | HT Correspondent
    Did you ever resent your colleagues for the countless number of times they stepped out for cigarette breaks? Finally, there is hope that you will be rewarded. A Japanese company is granting non-smoking employees extra six days of paid holidays a year. The decision at a Tokyo-based marketing firm, Piala Inc, came after someone from a non-smoker staff put a message in its suggestion box complaining that they were working more than their colleagues, who took regular cigarette breaks. Piala Inc’s chief executive Takao Asuka, a non-smoker, decided to take the suggestion and compensate his employees. “I hope to encourage...