It is a common concern among employers that their smoker employees take too much break and this few times should be counted as non-effective hours and even they should not be paid for them. In my opinion, employers are free to choose all of their employees among non-smokers and if they want to employ a smoker, they should not whine about some short breaks that they take to satiate their needs.
Employers oddly believe that more someone works more s/he will earn. Although this belief turns out true for machines, it does not apply to the human resource. On the contrary, more a human being work, more personal needs arise and less productive would the work be. Employers that are seeking for productivity should appreciate the necessity of breaks, even if they believe that smoking is a bad habit, and provide enough breaks for anyone rather than counting employees who try to buy some time for them.
If there is an honest concern for smokers' health and justice for non-smokers, probably the best solution would be that to encourage smokers to quit smoking. For instance, the sixth clean month of an old smoker could be awarded a little platelet or a cake that they can share with their colleagues to celebrate their healthy new lives. As a corollary to this, the number of breaks would decline.
In conclusion, my personal view is that breaks are beneficial for birth employees and employers since the refreshed employee would remain productive. Therefore employers should think about giving more breaks to everyone rather than arguing on the breaks that smokers take. If they are not content with the frequency of breaks, they also have an option not to employ the smoker or they can try to wean their employees away from smoking by giving some incentives.
It is a common concern among
employers
that their smoker
employees
take too much
break
and this few times should
be counted
as non-effective hours and even they should not
be paid
for them. In my opinion,
employers
are free to choose all of their
employees
among non-smokers and if they want to employ a smoker, they should not whine about
some
short
breaks
that they take to satiate their needs.
Employers
oddly
believe that more someone works more s/he will earn. Although this belief turns out true for machines, it does not apply to the human resource.
On the contrary
,
more a human
being work, more personal needs arise and less productive would the work be.
Employers
that are seeking for productivity should appreciate the necessity of
breaks
, even if they believe that smoking is a
bad
habit, and provide
enough
breaks
for anyone
rather
than counting
employees
who try to
buy
some
time for them.
If there is an honest concern for smokers' health and justice for non-smokers,
probably
the best solution would be that to encourage smokers to quit smoking.
For instance
, the sixth clean month of an
old
smoker could
be awarded
a
little
platelet or a cake that they can share with their colleagues to celebrate their healthy new
lives
. As a corollary to this, the number of
breaks
would decline.
In conclusion
, my personal view is that
breaks
are beneficial for birth
employees
and
employers
since the refreshed
employee
would remain productive.
Therefore
employers
should
think
about giving more
breaks
to everyone
rather
than arguing on the
breaks
that smokers take. If they are not content with the frequency of
breaks
, they
also
have an option not to employ the
smoker or
they can try to wean their
employees
away from smoking by giving
some
incentives.