According to a survey carried for Norwich Union Healthcare, a third of employees have admitted to being at work with a hangover and more than one in ten admitted being drunk at work.
Some occupations are worse than others with regard to drinking and the workplace. Forty-one per cent of people working in media and creative jobs said they had been to work while still drunk - four times the average.
The number who admitted to have been drunk at work was also high in the construction industry (24%), professional and business services (23%), and information technology (15%).
Don Shenker, from Alcohol Concern, said that with so many people drinking at harmful levels, it was not surprising that it was having an effect on the workplace. "After-work or lunchtime drinks are the norm for many and in some cases this is promoted by companies as a way to build teams or just as the way to do business."
The company who I work with now and the ones where I previously worked, have had a drugs and alcohol policy and did not tolerate the abuse of drugs or being drunk at work. They had random testing any body under the influence of either drugs or alcohol would be dismissed, this may seem harsh, but I worked at Stansted Airport and on the underground which by they very nature are considered life critical and you wouldn’t want drunks involved at those areas.
Rabbit
2008-05-08 @ 07:43