Any advice on how to manage smoking breaks, should this time be deducted from lunch time? Employees seem to take a smoking break every hour plus a lunch break... Our workforce has more smokers than non-smokers...
I'm not quite sure what the answer is, but if you ban smoking or try to reduce it you may only make matters worse by people disappearing off to the toilets for longer periods. ;-)
This is usually a matter that regulates itself / finds its own sensible equilibrium and if it's perceived to be a problem then it's usually indicative of a far-wider problem or problems, eg disengaged / badly managed staff or managers who wholly wrongly equate staff effectiveness / productivity with the precise timings they spend sitting at their desks or who listen too literally to 'not fair' bleatings from non-smoking staff.
This is usually a matter that regulates itself / finds its own sensible equilibrium and if it's perceived to be a problem then it's usually indicative of a far-wider problem or problems, eg disengaged / badly managed staff or managers who wholly wrongly equate staff effectiveness / productivity with the precise timings they spend sitting at their desks or who listen too literally to 'not fair' bleatings from non-smoking staff.
