What are your views on dress codes at the moment?

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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  • Hi Alyson,

    I really hate dress codes for exactly the reasons mentioned below: people are adults - you should expect and trust them to dress appropriately. And I've come across the whole 'we MUST have a policy' (to deal with the one person who's missed the mark, rather than everyone else).

    We're a relatively casual tech company - it just means that those of us looking a bit smarter today because of external meetings have had jokes about job interviews all morning!
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  • Hi Alyson,

    I really hate dress codes for exactly the reasons mentioned below: people are adults - you should expect and trust them to dress appropriately. And I've come across the whole 'we MUST have a policy' (to deal with the one person who's missed the mark, rather than everyone else).

    We're a relatively casual tech company - it just means that those of us looking a bit smarter today because of external meetings have had jokes about job interviews all morning!
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