Companies like JP Morgan and Price Water Cooper (PWC), the largest professional service in the world and one of the Big Four auditors have also welcomed some fresh changes in their organization which included loosening up the dress codes. According to a current employee of PWC, the biggest coup was that they could wear jeans to work. “Signs like this are important in showing our people that we’re open to new ways of working”, according to the company in light of their policy changes.
One can notice that the policy of casual dressing is not just found in the new age companies but also in a lot of workplaces that have been there for a long time now. Studies have suggested that “you are what you wear” and this is one the main reasons why companies have dress codes. The impression management and self-presentation theories have fed in a lot of ideas into people’s minds about how to be ‘socially desirable’ in every situation. Change is unnerving but it is also true that change is the only constant. Professional pressures to conform to dressing preferences can be very restricting and it also does not guarantee employee productivity.
Office dress codes are getting more casual and relaxed and the trend is likely to continue for good. One could thank the ‘Start-Up’ culture as they call it or the millennials for this but it is true that it is an employee-driven market. If you can give the employees what they want, you can hope the same from them too.
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