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What are your views on dress codes at the moment?

Alyson

What are the general thoughts about dress codes at the moment.

I have been asked to review ours as the standard of dress has slipped slightly over the last couple of years with some people wearing vans, converse or sketcher trainers others wearing hoodies. Most of our branches have a trade counter area with an open plan office, all trade counter and logistics staff are provided with a uniform which they are expected to wear so my question is more aimed at the rest of the office based staff.

My proposed policy is still pretty relaxed and certainly not strict business wear but I'm curious about what other companies are doing, I don't want to be tightening up on our policy whilst other companies are relaxing theirs.

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  • Guilty as charged. :-) I wear converse and vans and how I dress is really a reflection of the client culture, type of business and what activities I'm doing that day.

    Most of my clients have a business casual dress code but tend to leave it to their people to interpret that. I'm not saying there are not raised eyebrows when someone comes in in an outfit they don't like but someone might mention it and it's not often HR's job to do it.

    I have even worked in companies where dress codes vary across locations with one location having jeans as standard and another office only having jeans on a Friday.

    Personally, I'd go with broad parameters and any role specific rules. With the exception of health and safety requirements or environments where all staff have a uniform, I find a bit of leeway helps.

    No one wants to get school vibes from the workplace unless it's clearly the culture and then people can make an active choice about joining.
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  • Guilty as charged. :-) I wear converse and vans and how I dress is really a reflection of the client culture, type of business and what activities I'm doing that day.

    Most of my clients have a business casual dress code but tend to leave it to their people to interpret that. I'm not saying there are not raised eyebrows when someone comes in in an outfit they don't like but someone might mention it and it's not often HR's job to do it.

    I have even worked in companies where dress codes vary across locations with one location having jeans as standard and another office only having jeans on a Friday.

    Personally, I'd go with broad parameters and any role specific rules. With the exception of health and safety requirements or environments where all staff have a uniform, I find a bit of leeway helps.

    No one wants to get school vibes from the workplace unless it's clearly the culture and then people can make an active choice about joining.
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