Manpower is experiencing tremendous growth and we are on track to exceed our quarter 2 budget. Congratulations to each one of you for your consistently high productivity levels that have contribution to our success thus far.
It is so important for each one of us to remain conscientious about our productivity levels. It is very easy to slip into an unproductive environment. I would like to highlight one of the real “thieves of time” – smoke breaks.
Companies often complain about productivity loss due to employees taking frequent smoke breaks. To make matters worse, employees tend to want company when they do take a smoke break, so, typically three or four employees will congregate to smoke together and sometimes non-smokers will join them. A 3-minute smoke break becomes a 15 or 20 minute social. The effect of this on productivity can be major.
To ensure that smoking does not negatively impact on our productivity, we should try to control the number of smoke breaks that we take. To keep productivity loss to a minimum we should:
· Consciously record the amount of time we take on our smoke breaks
· We should not encourage social chats with smoking or non smoking colleagues
· We should stick to the company designated smoking areas
· We should smoke during lunch time, or during tea breaks, before or after work
· Be a clean smoker and dispose of cigarettes and matches conscientiously
It is so important for each one of us to remain conscientious about our productivity levels. It is very easy to slip into an unproductive environment. I would like to highlight one of the real “thieves of time” – smoke breaks.
Companies often complain about productivity loss due to employees taking frequent smoke breaks. To make matters worse, employees tend to want company when they do take a smoke break, so, typically three or four employees will congregate to smoke together and sometimes non-smokers will join them. A 3-minute smoke break becomes a 15 or 20 minute social. The effect of this on productivity can be major.
To ensure that smoking does not negatively impact on our productivity, we should try to control the number of smoke breaks that we take. To keep productivity loss to a minimum we should:
· Consciously record the amount of time we take on our smoke breaks
· We should not encourage social chats with smoking or non smoking colleagues
· We should stick to the company designated smoking areas
· We should smoke during lunch time, or during tea breaks, before or after work
· Be a clean smoker and dispose of cigarettes and matches conscientiously
1 comment:
Its quite a debate! Do smokers have the right to regular smoke breaks or are they offered on humanatarian grounds? These are the facts:
1. The average smoke break is 10 minutes.
2. The smoker-employee normally takes around 5 to 6 of these per day.
If you translate this into lost production time it adds up to a minimum of an hour a day, 5 hours a week, 20 hours a month.
Now the argument is: if it is a right then surely non-smokers should be rumunerated with 2 days leave per month in lieu of not-smoking. That would total 24 days a year - EXTRA LEAVE. We all know that this is impossible. We also know that smoke breaks are not a right but a priviledge that should not be abused. Infact, Municipal by-law out-law smoking in and AROUND the workplace. Smoking legislation has been stretched to included the exits of all public places. So next time you light up - remember that it is a priviledge not to be abused. Finish your cigarette and get back to work. Don't linger and have socials -
In Durban smoke breaks are only allowed every two hours - 8am / 10am / 12 / 2pm / 4pm
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