In a real estate company "Aiken Japan" with offices in Sendai City, as a part of promoting employee health, we give 10,000 yen a month as a smoking allowance to non-smokers who have not smoked 4 years ago We are introducing a system.

Also, since people who smoke often take breaks, in order to eliminate unfairness with those who do not smoke, I have increased the daily work hours by one hour for employees who smoke from last year and then take a break We have revised our internal regulations to consider that it takes two hours.

As a result of these initiatives, it is now that two out of three employees have received smoking cessation allowances.

A male employee who does not smoke cheated, "I thought it was natural to not smoke, but I'm glad that I get an allowance."

Kiyoshi Hirata of the Aiken Japan Sendai office said, "We are introducing allowances with awareness of the health of our employees, I think that it would be nice if the circle of smoking cessure spreads little by little." .