Employers are ready to reward employees for quitting smoking

by time news

Since the beginning of the year, employers have posted more than a thousand vacancies with the note: “an employee without bad habits is preferred.”

At the same time, 35 percent or more than a third of employers recognize the negative impact of smoke breaks on work. And most employers, or 57 percent, are willing to reward employees for quitting smoking. These are the results of a study published by the HeadHunter service.

According to the survey, employers in Moscow and the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk Regions, Novosibirsk and Omsk publish requests for “non-smoking” vacancies more often than others.

Fifty-one percent of employers believe that smoke breaks lead to decreased productivity and labor and a wasteful attitude towards working hours. Another 5 percent noticed that employees who smoke more often take sick leave.

At the same time, different companies prescribe different amounts of material incentives for quitting smoking – from 50 rubles a month bonus and up to 3,000 rubles for quitting tobacco. The majority or 82 percent of employers prefer not to repress smoking, but to encourage not smoking. 18 percent said they were ready to fine the smoking staff. Representatives of regional companies (21 percent) were more inclined to fines than those from the capital (12 percent).

About half or 49 percent of surveyed employers believe that smoking does not affect productivity, so employers should not interfere. More than a third or 37 percent admit that smoking interferes with work and lowers labor productivity, so employers should promote smoking cessation.

As for the applicants themselves, about 260 thousand Russians have posted CVs since the beginning of the year, indicating that they do not have the habit of smoking. Up to 28 percent of job seekers in Moscow, 12 percent in St. Petersburg and 7 percent in the Moscow region refuse tobacco.

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