Saturday, September 28, 2013

Smokers, take a $10,000 pay cut….


Do any of your employees or coworkers smoke? Each of them is costing your company, on average, about $10,000 a year. Maybe each of them should take a $10,000 pay cut….

Gallup.com has a new report that says the nearly 29 million U.S. workers who smoke are costing their employers about $278 billion a year in lost time, lost productivity, higher health care costs….

….and then there's the lingering smell of smoke in the elevator that most of them use to get to the parking lot out back where they go for their smoke breaks….

Compared with a non-smoker, the average worker who smokes is absent an extra 2.5 days a year for health reasons, gets the equivalent of about 9 days "off" for all those smoke breaks, and costs the company more than $2,000 extra for higher health care expenses covered by the company plan.

The boss could make a good case for cutting the average smoker's pay by about 10 grand.

…and don't even get me started about why the gov't should raise the taxes on cigarettes, cigars, snuff, Red Man Original, Skoal Longcut, hookah parlors….


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