A Tokyo marketing company is offering a novel perk for its nonsmoking employees: six additional days of vacation time
A Japanese company is offering an unusual perk for its nonsmoking employees: an extra six days of vacation.
A spokesman for Piala, Hirotaka Matsushima, said Thursday that the company began offering the six days of vacation to all of its 120 staff members in September.
Matsushima, himself a nonsmoker, said the policy was proving popular. The policy was installed as a benefit for nonsmokers to compensate for smoking breaks. Some nonsmoking employees had complained they were working more than their colleagues who stepped out for a cigarette, according to The Telegraph.
“One of our non-smoking staff put a message in the company suggestion box earlier in the year saying that smoking breaks were causing problems,” Matsushima told the publication.
