Toyoda Gosei Co., part of the Toyota Motor Corp. group, has decided to ban smoking in all its facilities nationwide from January.
While many companies remain reluctant to go completely smoke-free out of fear that employees will leave, the parts maker has concluded it will be better to create a smoke-free environment to help secure nonsmoking employees amid the national labor shortage.
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