Enigin Update - Energy Cuts on Japanese Firms Employees Heads
AFTER Japan’s disasters in March they have looked to cut energy use, due to loss of generating capacity - but cuts to save energy can vary.
Apart from losing the Fukushima nuclear power plant, safety checks at Japan’s other nuclear power plants have greatly strained supply, and with a suggested move away from nuclear power anyway there has been even greater emphasis on energy efficiency. However, one company has looked for energy cuts via hair cuts!
Maeda Corp., a construction company, has asked its 2,700 employees to have identical hairstyles; male employees are being encouraged to get a short back-and-sides “but slightly longer on top,” while the female workers should go for a bob “with a longer fringe that can be swept to one side.”
The UKs Daily Telegraph reports Maeda spokesperson Chizuru Inoue said, “Our company is very keen on protecting the environment and we encourage our staff to adopt many environment-friendly actions.”
She continued: “We are not sure of the data yet, but we believe if people have short hair they do not need to use their hair driers for so long and they will use less water. If all our staff do this, then it may save a lot of power.”
Generally Japanese companies have taken their government’s advice by moving production to weekends and evenings, plus utilising energy efficiency methods and technology to lessen the demand on beleaguered power stations, but Maeda must be the first company to take CUTS for energy literally.
Enigin Distributors provide Enigin plc's energy efficiency technology and solutions to both the private and public sectors, including Eniscope Real-time and Analytics system, which provides real-time and historical energy use and saving data for whole sites down to a granular level. But to monitor each employees head and hair style with Eniscope and the resultant energy use data maybe a step too far.
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