日企又掀節能高潮 員工髮型也"節能"

The Japanese government has called on companies and households to drastically reduce the amount of energy they consume after the Fukushima nuclear plant was destroyed. A Japanese company is taking the national campaign to reduce power consumption to extremes by prescribing an energy-saving haircut for all the staff.

據英國《每日電訊報》26日報道，自從福島核電站遭到破壞以來，日本政府一直呼籲各公司和家庭大幅減少能源消耗。而日本一家公司把這項減少能源消耗的全民運動推向了高潮：規定所有員工的髮型都要剪成“節能型”。

Construction firm Maeda Corp. has requested that its 2,700 staff adopt identical hairstyles - the men a short back-and-sides but slightly longer on top and the women a "cute" bob with a longer fringe that can be swept to one side.

日本前田建築工業株式會社要求其2700名員工都剪成相同的髮型。男員工要將腦後及兩側的頭髮剪短，頭頂的頭髮可以稍微留長一點；女員工都要把頭髮做成可愛的“波波頭”，但可以把劉海斜向一邊。

"Our company is very keen on protecting the environment and we encourage our staff to adopt many environment-friendly actions. 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," said Chizuru Inoue, a spokesman for Maeda Corp.

前田建築發言人井上千鶴說：“公司十分注重環境保護，我們鼓勵員工採取環保行動。我們相信，如果人們都剪短髮，他們就不會長時間使用吹風機，洗頭也不用那麼多水了。”

Another advantage, she said, is that it is easier to make short hair neat again after staff have been wearing hard hats and sweltering on construction sites.

她同時表示，施工現場的員工都得戴着悶熱的安全帽，而短髮有利於他們及時整理好髮型。

Other companies have introduced power-saving schemes, including shifting production to weekends and at night.

還有一些企業也把節約能源消耗提上日程，包括將生產時間改到週末和晚上。