"Time is money."
(English Proverb)
Some Good Reasons Why to Get Involved
Why is the number of companies rising who offer seminars to stop smoking to their employees? What are the gains for a company employing quite a few smokers? As a matter of fact, there are the arguments as follows, making our seminars very attractive also from the standpoint of company economics, in addition to the individual victory of each participant.
A Better Workplace
The conflicts between smokers and non-smokers have been lately growing in many companies. If you prevent the occurrence of such tensions, you improve communication in the workplace and enhance team cooperation. Further information…
Against stuffy air in the workplace: Project EASYWAY – Stop Smoking
When people work in a small space, it can cause the conflicts. Very experienced people responsible for human resource are well aware: the traditional source of conflict may also be the smoking issue.
Tensions Between Smokers and Non-Smokers
conflict between smoker and non-smoker
Most smokers do not like to get along without cigarettes even at the workplace, and co-workers – the non-smokers - of course feel harassed by that. And the helpless employer is left standing between the two groups: on the one hand, he/she is legally bound to protect the health of non-smokers, but on the other hand, smokers should not feel as if they are outsiders among the workers. Disputes regarding the smoking issue at the work place end up quite often in the labour courts.
Setting up smoker’s offices and non-smoker’s offices and/or non-smoking zones in dining or common rooms is not a satisfactory approach for many companies. The given solution sets up closed spaces and supports small groups to arise and in the long run, it is counter-productive for the working environment. The aim of a successful personnel policy should be the enhancement of interaction among colleagues, no matter whether they smoke or not.
Solution: Corporate EASYWAY Seminars or Project EASYWAY – Stop Smoking.
As health-issue awareness is growing with a great deal of citizens, smoking at the workplace may be tackled efficiently only when you motivate smokers to quit. This may work only without pressurizing and accompanied with attractive offers from the side of an employer. By applying the project “EASYWAY – Stop Smoking”, you actually provide your employees with an attractive offer which works for both the smokers and the non-smokers.
on-smokers teams can work together with low potentials of conflict.
Positive Affects of the Seminars to Quit:
By arranging Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking seminars for your employees–smokers to quit, you aqcuire conflict elimination in your company, but in addition to that, you can envigorate your people with positive energy; mainly, the relief being experienced by the successful participants of our Stop-Smoking Seminars who have gotten rid of their addiction. As a rule, after a long-term struggle they have gotten rid of their nicotine addiction. This relief and gratitude is often transferred also to the employer, who has allowed them to participate in Allen Carr’s seminars. The emotional bond of the workers and the employer has thus been automatically cemented. As the enthusiastic responses of the participants indicate, EASYWAY seminars may have inspiring impacts.
When someone who was a smoker manages to get rid of their tobacco addiction, he/she enjoys a positive life experience. His/her personal success has always positively affected their co-workers, their performance and their motivation.
Costs Savings
Smoking is expensive. This involves not only smokers, but also every company employing smoking people. As research studies have shown, one smoker may incur additional expenses of up to 27,000.00 CZK or 900 EUR to the company a year.
Quit-smoking courses pay up.
Smoking is expensive and not only for the smoker, but also for every employer employing smokers. As research and the follow-up study called "Smoking and Company Economics“ has calculated, one smoker incurs additional costs to his/her employer of up to 27,000.00 CZK or 900 EUR a year.
Each responsible employer making the decision to offer the scheme to enhance the health in his/her company should not give priority to the costs. Nevertheless, it may be interesting for you to find out the stop-smoking scheme for your smoking employees which is profitable from the standpoint of the company’s economics.
Which particular additional costs are incurred by the smoking employee?
Smokers are sick more frequently
The major portion of the costs is caused by the frequent sick-leaves of the smokers. Statistics show smokers to be sick 7.5 days longer as compared with non-smokers. As the results of annual statistics for Europe show, 25 % of sick-leave payments are involved in the diseases inflicted by nicotine abuse. Statistically, it represents almost 8,000.00 CZK or 240 EUR a year per smoker to be paid by an employer. But also employees – non-smokers - are exposed as passive smokers to an increased health hazard that can again show in increased costs on sick-leave.
Smoking breaks – a cost-affecting phenomenon
You are certainly familiar with the common situation: the abandoned work place; a colleague has stepped out into the corridor to have one cigarette.… Have you ever considered how much time your employees spend during work time when smoking? Let’s calculate it: when a smoker smokes just 5 cigarettes within the work time supposing that one cigarette takes 8 min., we end up with 40 min., e.g. almost the full hour. This makes 21 working days a year and/or in costs, it is a month’s salary. By the way: Allen Carr’s EASYWAY seminars take only 5 hours.
Cost Calculator for Company
Costs of venting spaces
Everywhere smokers work, you have to vent and open the windows more frequently. This causes the costs of conditioning the air and heating to grow. When you have to maintain separate rooms for smokers and non-smokers, arranging smoker zones and offices results in higher costs for the infrastructure of your company.
Improving Image
If you accept our offer of the seminars for smokers, you show you care for the health of your employees and this may be an important feature for the public relations (PR) of your company. It demonstrates your company is making its people a priority.
You demonstrate you feel responsible for “human resources”.
”Our people are our most valuable asset. Their health and safety is our priority. Safety at work and healthcare enhances the performance of our workers, and thus also the competitive edge of our company.…” The above and also other statements serve doubtless as a model also for your company. But how do you make them true?
The respective work-safety measures have become a matter of course in leading companies. Optimal healthcare also demands the general view and involves prevention.
By offering the Stop-Smoking Seminars in your company, you demonstrate within and also without the company, that you as an employer approach the health issue very seriously. You show your feeling of responsibility for “human resources”. Each of your workers, who has stopped smoking after having gone through the program EASYWAY – Stop Smoking, shall become an ambassador of your developed company culture.
Stop-Smoking Projects as PR – Events
A lot of our clients make use of our offer of the Stop-Smoking Seminars for their employees–smokers also as a PR instrument. And many articles appearing in the press during the last few years affirm that the media also likes to inform the public about the issue; the smoking issue has always been a public concern after all and you express, together with a world-famous partner like Allen Carr’s Easyway To Stop Smoking, that you are serious about your intentions.
Summing Up the Advantages for Your Company
• Healthier Workforce. Smoking is linked to a wide range of health issues that effect your smoking staff daily.
• Reduced absenteeism. Smokers take at least 7,5 days more sick-leave per year than non-smokers.
• Unified Workforce. Segregation between smokers and non-smokers ceases. No more resentment towards those taking extra smoking breaks.
• Improved productivity. Smokers spend approximately 115 hours per year on unauthorised cigarette breaks.
• Improved Company Image. Smokers no longer congregate outside the entrance to your premises, spoiling your company image. Is the entrance to your building littered with the cigarette ends and smoking litter?
• Improved Health and Safety. Cigarettes are the main combustibles involved in fires. More people are killed in fires caused by cigarettes than fires created by any other cause.