No ifs or butts for employees at The Pen Warehouse

Aldershot based promotional pens manufacturer, The Pen Warehouse, is helping staff to improve their health with a stop smoking initiative.

The company will fund two employees a month to attend the Allen Carr Easyway Clinic. The clinic has helped millions of people across the world to stop smoking and employees at The Pen Warehouse will now be able to join them.

The course costs £250 per person, which will be met by the Pen Warehouse, and employees will be able to attend during working hours.  The company is also funding a trial of electronic cigarettes, providing ten employees each with a pack worth £20.00.

Speaking about the initiative, Neil Cleere, Managing Director at The Pen Warehouse said: “Approximately 25% of our employees smoke but helping to keep our staff in good health is in everyone’s interest.   I understand how difficult it is for people to stop so that’s why I’m looking at different ways to support and encourage them;  if I can lengthen the life of any one of my staff by just one day I will regard it as worthwhile.”