Employer Brand manager Yuliya Semenova shared a vacancy that the employer offered only to non-smokers, while the ban on smoking was total and even IQOS, Glo, disposables and vapes fell under it.
Employer Brand manager Yuliya Semenova shared a vacancy that the employer offered only to non-smokers, while the ban on smoking was total and even IQOS, Glo, disposables and vapes fell under it.
She posted part of the job description on her LinkedIn account.
Yulia Semenova herself considers such demands to be a crossing of personal boundaries.
«This is a violation of personal boundaries. Usually, such companies also ask during interviews, «Are you married?» Do you have children? And when do you plan?». This is a moveton. I am hired based on two criteria: soft and hard skills. Everything else should not concern them», — she said in the comments to this post.
According to Semenova, she did not have the experience of someone smoking in the office at work — everyone always went out to smoke: both those who smoke ordinary cigarettes and those who use electronic cigarettes.
Some contributors from the IT community echoed her sentiment.
«Tough, very tough with the requirements. This is the most incorrect approach. If they write such conditions only at the search stage, it scares me to think what happens there during work», — says QA Engineer Dmytro Rybkin .
«Maybe this is all to sort out the candidates: for example, you have 600 reviews, and if you remove the smokers — already 200. It’s still a lot… Then you can add another point — the height is not less than 180 cm, that’s already 60 candidates. Well, mix it up, half to the shredder — because those are losers, and you can work with 30 at least», — joked Andriy Sartek about the requirements for the Front-End Developer vacancy.
At the same time, not everyone supported Yulia Semenova in this discussion, emphasizing the fact that electronic cigarette smokers often allow themselves to smoke right in the office.
«The worker minimizes the risk of death due to a „toxic“ team. I have never seen vapers in a smoking room, as they believe that it is possible to smoke at the workplace, in the elevator, anywhere…», — believes contributor Paul B, who works in the field of Blockchain, crypto, DAPP development and consulting .
Senior Python Developer Oleksandr Viter, like many other colleagues from the IT sphere, also emphasize the fact that smokers spend a large amount of working time on exits for smoking breaks.
«Quite a normal demand. If you calculate how much time per year smokers spend on smoking breaks, and non-smokers do not have this option, while the salary is the same, it turns out that smokers work much less. It just seems that „that’s the case for 2-3 minutes“. And if you count: the time to walk from the workplace to the smoking place, actually to smoke, the time to walk from the smoking place to the workplace. And all this — several times a day. Plus classic conversations in the smoking room. And I’m not talking about the smell unpleasant for non-smokers, which smokers bring back to the office,» — he notes.
PM Assistant Yaroslava Chorna also agrees with this opinion.
«After working in an office where half of the smoking team had 10 breaks per shift and the non-smokers had to report for a 3-minute trip to the kitchen to make their own tea, I find this approach at least more productive and fair In addition, there is no impact on the health of the environment and this stench,» — she adds.
