If you take vacation and public holidays into account, you get two weeks of additional free time per year, it said in a press release on Monday. Anyone who works more than 6 hours a day is legally entitled to a 30-minute break. Aside from that, some employers want to track exactly how often their employees take a cigarette break and also have this documented as time off from work – others don’t take it so seriously.
Of those surveyed, 19 percent said they leave work five times a day for a cigarette. 13 percent go outside 4 times a day, 12 percent 3 times. Almost one in 10 respondents even takes 6 timeouts per day. When it comes to the length of individual absences, 5 minutes was the most frequently given answer (39 percent). Extrapolated to a whole working week, this comes to around 2 hours.
Some people shorten their regular lunch break to this extent so that the cigarette breaks would be balanced out. However, one can assume that not every smoker does this.
