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Smokers costing UK businesses £2bn a year
Staff smoking is costing British companies more than £2bn a year, according to figures released by the NHS and the London School of Economics.
The research found that last year businesses lost £1.1bn from smoking related illness absences, £914m from smoking breaks and £133m from fire damage.
With many small firms currently struggling due to the economic downturn the research highlights the loss of productivity that a business can suffer if too many employees are smokers.
"Smoking continues to have a detrimental impact on the UK workforce and there remains a strong commercial case for employers to further reduce smoking prevalence among their employees," said Professor Alistair McGuire.
Post Date: June 7th, 2009
The research found that last year businesses lost £1.1bn from smoking related illness absences, £914m from smoking breaks and £133m from fire damage.
With many small firms currently struggling due to the economic downturn the research highlights the loss of productivity that a business can suffer if too many employees are smokers.
"Smoking continues to have a detrimental impact on the UK workforce and there remains a strong commercial case for employers to further reduce smoking prevalence among their employees," said Professor Alistair McGuire.
Post Date: June 7th, 2009
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