Smoking away your pay check: Japanese workers disciplined for puffing on the job
People smoke cigarettes at a smoking area in Tokyo September 16, 2011.
Of the three, the biggest offender was a 61-year-old employee who was found to have lighted up a cigarette for a total of 4,512 times in the past 14 and a half years while he was on the job. That's equivalent to smoking for 355 hours and 19 minutes during business hours. They were summoned by their supervisor and warned that they may face consequences should they get caught smoking again. However, undeterred by the warning, the three went on to continually smoke and lied about it when interviewed in December 2022.
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