From March 2016, it will be forbidden to smoke an electronic cigarette in “closed and covered workplaces for collective use”. A puzzle in perspective for companies.
In the absence of law, there are habits. That of vaping in front of his computer has become one for many workers. By March 2016, companies will have to enforce the law that prohibits smoking the electronic cigarette in the office.
More and more breaks ? It promises to be a puzzle for the bosses. First, because this law could pose a productivity problem. " With electronic cigarettes, nicotine only affects the brain for a period of fifteen to twenty minutes. The vaper will therefore be forced and forced, in a way, to take many more breaks." , Explain Brice Lepoutre, President of the Independent Association of Electronic Cigarette Users.
A "hypocritical" ban. In addition to productivity, it is also health that is at stake, according to the representative of the association. In companies that already ban electronic cigarettes, half of vapers, forced to go out to indulge their little pleasure, have returned to conventional cigarettes. " I find this ban very hypocritical. I quit smoking so there is no way I will go outside with the smokers“, Plague Sophie, employee in a large company. " In this case, give me a special room in which I can smoke inside the company". This solution had also been considered, but this measure was quite simply deleted from the law.
Source : Europe1
