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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