- Since September, non-smokers at the Japanese marketing firm Pilia have received six extra vacation days.
- The added time is meant to compensate non-smokers for the 15-minute breaks smokers take throughout the year.
- The move is a big step in Japan, a country where work-life balance is basically non-existent.
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Non-smokers at this Japanese company get 6 extra vacation days for not taking smoke breaks
In a country where nearly 22% of people smoke, one executive says he's decided to combat the habit with incentives, not coercion.
As a reward for not taking daily smoke breaks, non-smokers at the Japanese company Pilia Inc. now receive an extra six days off each year.
Pilia, a marketing firm based in Tokyo, enacted the policy in September after CEO Takao Asuka received complaints from his non-smoking employees that smokers shouldn't be rewarded for their habit with 15-minute breaks.
Although the US has had its own problems with people not taking enough time off from work, Americans aren't smoking as much as they used to. In 1965, more than 42% of adults smoked. By 2015, the rate had fallen to 15%.
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