Smokers waste time in the workplace.
I work in a 6 story glass building with a large breezeway connecting the
second story to another building. Every day we watch as the same people take
multiple cigarette breaks through each work day. Many of these people
work in the same office together and go out together. Curious about how much
work time this particular group of people(5 of them) might be wasting on
cigarette breaks I kept a rough estimate of the time they spent over the
course of a few days.
Cigarette Smoking wastes your life and your employers time Each of these individuals spent on average around 30 minutes daily standing around on the breezway smoking cigarettes. Now I don't know how their breaks are rationed out through their day but in our office there are no smokers and we only take a lunch break and very short restroom breaks. Not because we're enforced to do that but because we're working and don't have a nicotine addiction that needs satisfaction throughout the day. These people are costing their employer from 2 to 3 worker hours daily standing around satisfying a rather silly addiction. Cigarette breaks increase productivity afterwards? A friend of mine argued that after a cigarette break workers were more focused and worked harder due to being relaxed? I think thats rather silly and probably a myth that smokers derived as justification. Even so if you worked harder for an hour afterwards you still spent time before getting irritated due to the urge then the time smoking so you're still wasting time. Not to mention if you're performing a task you have to focus and re-settle. Quit Smoking its bad for productivity and bad for your life. |