~15 years ago, Lockheed in Georgia, stopped hiring smokers.
No great big publicity, but their reasoning was different. Most of the buildings they had were very large — bigger than the average aircraft hanger. Indoor smoking had just been banned and smokers had to trek several hundred feet to an exit in order to light up. It quickly became apparent that smokers were spending more time walking to an exit, smoking outside, and then walking back to work, than actually working. And they did it at least once per hour.
Seemed justified to me...
Yeah, walking a few hundred feet and taking a few minutes to light up eats up the bulk of an hour.
I put in extra time at work just to keep anal jerks from using that argument with me.
I don’t see anybody timing how long people people are in the john or how often they go.
I don’t see anybody timing the quantity and frequency of coffee breaks.
You know what the #1 waste of time at work is?
Meetings!!! Good Lord! the inefficiency of meetings is stunning!