Research for British Heart Foundation says cigarette breaks cost employers £1,815 a year for each full-time worker who smokes
Cigarette breaks at work cost British businesses £8.4bn a year in lost productivity of smokers who disappear for a cigarette for 10 minutes four times a day, new research reveals.
Smoking breaks cost employers £1,815 a year for each full-time member of staff who lights up during working hours, according to a study for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) carried out by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
The one-in-five of the workforce who smoke take an average of 3.9 smoking breaks, each lasting 9.8 minutes. They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
See full Article: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/03/smoking-breaks-cost-businesses-british-heart-foundation
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