Employees wear "No-Face" masks during working hours at a service company in Handan, Hebei Province of China. As a service company, staff must smile to customers every day. On "No-Face Day," staff wore masks to hide their facial expressions and allow them to relax. No-Face is a character in the 2001 animated movie "Spirited Away," a silent masked creature who has no facial expressions.
Tired of putting on a smile all day to your customers and colleagues?
Pitch this idea to your bosses — a day when employees can wear masks to hide their facial expressions.
The Chinese company Woffice began this idea on Tuesday in its offices in Beijing, Tianjin and Handan. The event's theme: "Stop forcing yourself, unleash the relaxed you.” Photos show most employees, including security guards and janitors, wearing the same expressionless mask of “No-Face,” a semi-transparent ghostly character in the Japanese animated film "Spirited Away."
In the 2001 Oscar-winning film, directed by Japan’s top animation director Hayao Miyazaki, No-Face is a spirit that can only grunt and moan as opposed to speak coherently. It also eats other individuals to gain their personality and physical traits.
Yes, but a mask at work is just a one-day solution. And it needs a buy-in from the bosses.
A South Korean plastic surgery center has a "Nip/Tuck" solution: Smile Lipt, or mouth-corner lift.
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